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...Susan Stork '52, president of the Radcliffe Club of New York, said yesterday that she thought lawsuits brought against the Harvard Club, combined with "negative vibes from Cambridge" prompted a new vote...
...Stork said that many Radcliffe Club members are hesitant about joining the Harvard Club because of financial considerations. "Most of the club members I have talked to, even those who want to become part of the Harvard Club, are reluctant to pay the extra dues," she said. Annual dues for the Radcliffe Club are $50, while those for the Harvard Club are $250. The Radcliffe Club has a $1800 budget which is subsidized by the Harvard organization. This budget would be eliminated if the clubs were merged...
While the Harvard Club is primarily a "private club," Stork said, the Radcliffe group concerns itself mainly with alumnae activities, and holds interviews for prospective applicants unable to come to Cambridge and introductory meetings for incoming freshmen. The club also provides scholarship money for Radcliffe students...
...recreation, he went to the racetrack, usually with his lifelong friend Clyde Tolson, who became Associate Deputy Director of the bureau; Hoover always cautiously restricted himself to the $2 window. In the '30s and '40s, he began to appear in New York nightclubs, such as the Stork Club, with cronies, notably Walter Winchell, but he would have only one drink, or two at most. Columnist Jack Anderson, whose agents assiduously went through Hoover's trash cans recently in an exercise of exceptionally personal journalism, confirmed that he liked to drink Jack Daniels...
Gossipmongers. Holding court at the Stork Club or chasing around town in a car equipped with police radio, siren and flashing red light, Winchell became a "national institution" with annual earnings of more than $500,000. Trading plugs for the latest dirt, he played the fawning pressagents for all they were worth, banishing the unfavored to his feared "DD [drop dead] list." His underworld contacts occasionally turned up a genuine "skewp." In one instance he announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender...