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...suspicion that lawyers are not as other men will be deepened rather than dispelled by Author-Lawyer Louis Auchincloss' twelve stories about Tower, Tilney & Webb, a great New York law firm. Auchincloss has become a habitual bestseller with his tales and novels (The Injustice Collectors') about the hereditary rich and the lawyers who themselves become rich by helping the rich stay that way. His current stories are about a specialized tribe within the specialized race-the grey men who deal in "green goods" (securities), and the sharpies who can reduce the tax bite to a friendly...
...design sculptor is 32-year-old Norman Hoberman, who worked with a team from the Manhattan architectural firm of Pedersen & Tilney. Hoberman rejected the idea of any kind of statue, because "there is so much photographic material on F.D.R." Nor did he want another anachronism such as a modified Greek temple (the Lincoln Memorial) or an Egyptian obelisk (the Washington Monument). Instead, he proposed perpendicular tablets carrying quotations from Roosevelt. Commented Jury Chairman Pietro Belluschi: "I hate to bring up Moses and his tablets, but this is a sort of version of them...
...varsity boating was: Bow, N. Tilney (Capt.); 2, T. Swayze; 3, M. Zuromskis; 4, R. Zeeb; 5, F. Hunnewell; 6, T. Everett; 7, J. McClennen; Stroke, R. Lawrence; Coxswain, B. Peale...
...Nick Tilney will take over the bow position for this race, and veteran bow John Lapsley will move to the number seven oar. Bob McLaughlin will occupy the important cox position, and Fred Schwartz will be stroke. The rest of the boat will be Art Hodges, two; Jim McClennon, three; Jim Leonard, four; Peter Tulloch, five; and Charlie Faulkner...
Junior Varsity--stroke, Fritz Schwarz; seven, Carter Harrison; six, Geoffrey Locke; five, John Eager; four, Charles Faulkner; three, Steven Hopkins; two, Henry Hammond; bow, Nick Tilney; cox, John Finley...