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...life of unhappy splendor, fled to the besieged British in Boston. It wasn't long before the nucleus of the American Navy moved in, a bunch of fishermen from Marblehead. They messed the place up pretty badly, and Washington, deciding to move in from his undesirable quarters in Wadsworth House, had to foot a cleaning and redecorating bill of twelve dollars...
...Craigie rented rooms to lodgers, and one of them was Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whom she first refused because she thought he was a student. When she died in 1841, it was found that all had not been pleasant between the Craigies. She had a lover whom she had been waiting for all her life, and her husband had been getting letters from an illegitimate daughter. When Oliver Wendell Holmes discovered the undercurrents in the mansion, he exclaimed with relish, "What a household! Mrs. Craigie hiding her letters in the attic and Mr. Craigie hiding his letters in the cellar...
Ralph V. Summy, Jr. '50Nancy Claflin Holliston John T. Swing '50 Barbara Means Buckingham James B. Taylor '50 Katherine Calf Cambridge Joshua M. Twilley '50 Katharine Wadsworth Radcliffe Perry A. de Valpine '50 Janet Austin Simmons Joseph S. Vera '50 Nancy Horan Sacred Heart James G. Waddell '50 Ligi Goddard Seituate Richard A. Wallace '50 Margo Bulboan Winsor Richard B. Walsh '50 Perry Horvitz Wellesley Lauriston Ward, Jr. '50 Evelyn Cobb Boston J. P. LaWare '50 Janet McLanghlin Lasell Robert L. Ware '50 Alice Warner Wellesley Bennett C. Wilson '50 Diane Grubler Wellesley James F. D'Wolf, Jr. '50 Dickie...
...Haddad, had become Dahish's most fanatical disciple. As the stories made the rounds of Beirut, the Government decided to act. Foreign Minister Selim Takla, buzzed the bazaars, was drafting a deportation order for Dahish. Then, on the night of Jan. 11, 1945, Takla entertained U.S. Minister George Wadsworth (now Ambassador to Iraq) at dinner. Wadsworth left the Foreign Minister, apparently fit and smiling, returned home to find a message that Takla had dropped dead...
...only difficulty seems to be in persuading the various organizations eventually to move to the new quarters, and thus consolidate all the dispersed Alumni functions under one roof. As a consequence, crowded Wadsworth House could be left to help satisfy the expanding space demands of the other University offices which now use part of its facilities. Some dichards may plead for the old "serenity" of historic Wadsworth, or insist that the Harvard Club of Boston is an adequate gathering point, but these hardly seem valid objections to a desirable and long-needed plan that should be successfully brought to fruition...