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...Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan's enterprises seem to be almost an annual affair. Last spring, for example, he dreamed up a building project for the Cambridge Common. All went well...
Sullivan's quarrel with the M.D.C. and the Charles River Yacht Club (a private organization) springs from his attempts to construct a large apartment house on the riverfront property which he owns. The M.D.C. refused to allow Sullivan to build, but a few months later granted the Club permission to construct a clubhouse and wharfs on Sullivan's property...
Kennedy's advisers have narrowed their choices for the Kennedy to two riverfront locations, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, Special the President, told the CRIMSON last night...
Dupree will demolish the present Infirmary before beginning construction on the riverfront property...
Although the University will not sell the Observatory land outright, Whitlock said, it is interested in exchanging it for the Burns playground. This playground riverfront area has long been considered as a second choice for the tenth House if the sale of the MTA's storage and switching yards along Boylston St. to the University fails to materialize...