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...Swiss cheese on rye (no mustard) and one banana are his customary lunch, but world-famed Architect Walter Gropius settled for champagne and caviar when some 40 colleagues turned out to surprise him on his 80th birthday. Best surprise of all to the prolific former chairman of Harvard's department of architecture was the appearance of an old crony, Finnish Architect Hugo Alvar Aalto, 65. When the two men were through toasting each other, Gropius opened a letter notifying him of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Berlin. "Isn't that nice?" he said...
...with top marks. Posted to London in 1935, and then reassigned to the U.S. as minister counselor and ambassador, Pearson quickly built up the best Washington contacts in the whole foreign diplomatic corps. A close set of intimates gathered nights around the Pearson piano, talking shop, singing and sipping rye. "We envied his ability to keep a foot in our embassy as well as in the State Department," recalls a British contemporary. "We naturally told him all, and so did the Americans...
Also, Paul L. Hoch, of Leverett and Charlottesville, Va., chemistry and physics; Duncan M. Kennedy, of Quincy and Cambridge, economics; Michael E. Lesk, of Winthrop and New York City, chemistry and physics; Elliot S. Miller, of Lowell and Rye, N.Y., English; and Peter A. Tscherning, of Winthrop and Washington, D.C., classics...
...during the Great Depression, the support-control system is much the same as it was in the New Deal days, only bigger and more complicated. In its current operations, the Agriculture Department uses a device called "crop loans" to support prices of wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, peanuts, corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop...
...answer to the BAG statements, Anthony Corvino, personnel manager of the Dorchester plant, said, "It's all false." Corvino refused to elaborate until a statement is issued by Continental head-quarters in Rye...