Word: wolfson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably one of the few persons in Widener who has a sigh of regret when the library closes at ten each evening is Harry Austryn Wolfson, Harvard's Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. With an enthusiasm unabated today by forty years of research and teaching, Wolfson works as nearly around the clock as he can in Widener B-45--a study crammed to utter confusion with books, pamphlets, and papers that fill up the ceiling-high shelves on three sides of the room, overflow on the mammoth desk in the middle, and encumber every available chair with...
...post of corporation secretary. He survived the great man's purges partly by knowing when to keep his mouth shut. When he disagreed with Avery it was always in private and in a courteous manner. Barr is popular with the staff, has even won a Wolfson accolade: "In my book, he's tops...
...Boss. At week's end, the first meeting of the new board showed clearly who was boss. The official tally of the proxy fight for control, announced last week, gave Wolfson enough votes to put three directors on the nine-place board...
...They are Wolfson, New York Financier Alexander Rittmaster and Merchandising Adwoman Bernice Fitz Gibbon. At the first meeting of the new board, they too found out who was going to run things...
Shaver, another member of the old management. This gave Barr and Clarke complete control of the company in most critical matters. This was the first blow at Wolf son. The second : the board steam roller flattened Wolfson's plea for a committee to search out a new president, smoothly named Chairman Barr to that post as well. When the meeting ended, Wolfson, shut out completely, was near inarticulate and trembling with rage. If he continues his batt'e for control of Ward's, he will have to fight a tough...