Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the October 8 to 18 issues of the CRIMSON reached me on the same day (fie on the circulated department!) I read all of them with my usual avid interest. In the issue of October 8 was a feature story on The Dana Palmer House, written by Maxwell E. Foster, Jr., and I thought rather brightly...
Gilbert E. Mottla '32 of Cambridge and Reginald H. Zalles of Boston, former instructor in philosophy at Harvard, were chosen as vice chairmen. John C. Palmer A.M. '42 of Somerville, Lawrence M. Jaffa 3 Div. of Pembroke, and Miss Elizabeth Russo, Radcliffe '50, of Cambridge were named to the State Executive Committee...
...batch of Hotel Waldorf-Astoria Corp. bonds with a face value of $500,000 for $22,500, or 4? on the dollar. A few years later, after the bonds had soared, he sold out at a profit of $412,000 to raise cash to buy Chicago's Palmer House. But he never forgot his goal. Last week, Connie Hilton proudly announced that he had reached it. Both he and the Waldorf's stockholders had signed the deal, and barring "a fire, an atom bomb or a nuisance suit," the Waldorf would become No. 16 in the Hilton chain...
...Dana Palmer house was built in 1823. It got the first part of its name from the builders, the Dana family, who lived there for ten years. Richard Henry Dana, the author of "Two Years before the Mast," grew up in the house; his chum James Russell Lowell once tried to ride a pony up the front stairs...
...longest-term resident was Professor George Herbert Palmer, whence the second half of the building's name. Palmer, a well-known classical scholar who claimed genially that he "existed on the decay of Greece," lived there from 1894 until 1933. On his initiative, the astronomer's "caboose" was finally taken off the roof and some of the interior remodelled. Dean Gummere used the building for a few years before the war, and after Pearl Harbor, when the Navy moved into President Conant's house, President Conant moved into the Dana Palmer house. He moved out just before it migrated across...