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...effected a change in his life. Clarence Randall, Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt, and Frederick Lewis Allen, Associate Editor of Harper's were all members of the class of 1912, along with William L. Laurence, science editor of the New York Times; Raymond S. Wilkins, an Overseer; and Harry Wolfson, a Harvard professor. They were witness with their fellows to the beginning of a chapter of the College's history and the end of a certain gracious style of education in a gracious, secure world.JOSEPH P. KENNEDY...
Chalk delights in showmanship. When he bought D.C. Transit for $13.5 million from Corporate Raider Louis Wolfson six years ago, Chalk ordered the line's buses repainted in a green, white and coral design selected by Wife Claire Chalk. The capital's first air-conditioned buses were welcomed with a traffic-tangling parade of bands, calypso dancers and pretty girls. But along with the showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly...
...Twersky studied at the University under a leading scholar of Judaism. Harry A. Wolfson, who is now Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus...
There are still, of course, the two most confusing characters of all: Hector (Harry Low Simons) and Gnatalia (Carolyn Mercer) who drift across the stage with cryptic sneers apparently wondering why Wolfson put them there. Yet what they must say they say with dignity. And David Gilfillan has designed a magnificently intricate machine...
...would be unfair to complain that Wolfson's temerity has not to some extent paid off. For his cosmology has Shaw's charm, which is simply that one can sit and listen to such talk for hours. Although Harvard lost the playwright's talents to Yale in 1960, the machine that looks after such matters has done this community an odd and pleasant favor by transferring the production to Cambridge...