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Frances E. Sweeney, a supervisor of Holcombe, charged that in January he had told her. "You better watch out for your...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Personnel Revokes 1-Day Suspension Of Kitchen Worker | 4/22/1975 | See Source »

...late December, shortly after his election, Holcombe submitted another list of grievances to William N. Mullins, manager of employee relations. Then on January 22, his supervisor, Frances E. Sweeney, charges he left the Currier kitchen for half an hour to organize an employees' meeting at North House on company time. The meeting was the latest in a string of minor battles between Holcombe, who had been registering constant complaints and papering the bulletin boards with pronunciamenti, and his superiors...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Small Revolution in the Kitchens | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

...next day, January 23, Sweeney and Holcombe had a talk. "With much difficulty," she later wrote, "I finally convinced Sherman to come to my office at 2 p.m. hoping to calm his ire and explain to him why such procedures cannot be allowed. Although, I prefer to forget all the unpleasant details of this meeting I feel obligated to report the threat Mr. Holcombe made to me. That is quote: "and you better watch out for your...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Small Revolution in the Kitchens | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

...January 27 Sweeney wrote an angry letter to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, outlining and complaining about Holcombe's legion grievances against Harvard. Two days later, Holcombe was called in to the dining hall manager's office, where three supervisors and one member of the Personnel Office were waiting...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Small Revolution in the Kitchens | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

Falsely equating Sweeney, in the poem, with the poet, Matthews supplies no further evidence of this "general truth...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: No End To Smoky Days | 3/12/1974 | See Source »

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