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...direct contrast to the dynamic, organized atmosphere of Morison's office is the famous study of Harry Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus, where he works all day, every day in scholarly solitude. Teeming with books, manuscriupts, old journals and the like, Wolfson's much discussed office defies description...
Like many of his students, Wolfson after 20 years has grown very attached to his study. "The great thing about Harvard," he says, "is that they allow professors to keep their studies. Your study is your occupation...If you work in your study, you're still a part of the University...
Three years ago Chalk bought Washington's well-hated, strike-bound transit system from Louis Wolfson, who had milked it of millions. Chalk put up only $500,000 of his own money, borrowed $9,100,000, plus a $3,900,000 mortgage, to take over a company with a book value of $27 million. He started out by painting Washington's buses glaring green and coral, installed shapely stewardesses on streetcars, last summer rolled out 100 new buses (67 of them air-conditioned) in a downtown parade with four bands, bathing beauties, clowns, calypso dancers. Hoopla-and hustling...
Keith D. Lowe '60 and Ernest E. Pell '59 last night won the coveted Boylston Prizes for Elocution. James C. Marlas '59, Mark J. Mirsky '61, and John S. Wolfson '60 each received second prizes in the contest, one of the University's oldest and most distinguished...
MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT will sell up to $22.5 million worth, or 60%, of its 80.5% stock interest in N.Y. Shipbuilding. Louis Wolfson, chairman of both companies, says Merritt-Chapman will retain management control. N.Y. Shipbuilding plans to acquire Higgins, Inc., New Orleans boat builder, through an exchange of stock worth...