Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stack left to answer the phone so I wandered by myself, explaining every few steps that I was "authorized," and that there had been girls on the CRIMSON for several years...
Excuse me, young lady, I believe you must be looking for the Cambridge Rooms; ladies don't use this entrance." I explained. Everyone was polite. Mr. Stack, the Club's General Manager, assured the doorman that I was expected, and offered me a tour of the parts of the club I might not have seen before...
...ground floor dining area was beginning to fill with lunching businessmen as Mr. Stack guided me to Harvard Hall, the main lounge. The decor was more "Harvard" than Harvard, and the men were a part of it. Dignity. Civility. White-haired men in baggy suits sat under framed images of themselves, while younger men stood expressionless in front of a TV screen which flashed silent, gray reports from the New York Stock Exchange. A granfalloon indeed. Each man reading his newspaper, comfortable in being alone with others like himself...
Meanwhile, Mr. Stack fed me statistics. 7600 members. Lunch served to 700 to 800 daily. Liquor inventory of $40,000, including 75 varieties of wine. 1000 pop-overs baked each day. 250 squash-players per month. I asked if I could see the squash courts. Mr. Stack bent down and replied in a quiet voice that it wouldn't be possible for me to go upstairs because the men would be in their... um... you know, birthday suits...
...Model Cities program. His campaign, though deeply in debt, is headed by financially astute Ben Fox '69 who picked Hayes to work for after looking over all the candidates for the Council and the School Committee. The campaign is a pretty amateur affair. Ben carries around a stack of blank checks from the Cambridge and Harvard Trust banks so people who don't have any ready cash can still contribute...