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...turkey talk seemed a little nearer. Imminent was 1939's Thanksgiving I, and a striking workman is just as fond of turkey dressing as any time-card puncher. Labor Department Trouble Shooter James F. Dewey perked up, indicated the strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
Other Cambridge residents have already received awards for this year are as follows: Bernard Barger '39, won a Sheldon Prize Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Lewis Dexter, Harvard A.B. '32, M.D. '36, won a William Hunter Workman Scholarship at the Harvard Medical School; Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, was named a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, on a three-year term; Herbert E. Wright Jr. '39, won the George H. Emerson Scholarship at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
There have been no attempted thefts at the Louvre since 1911, when an Italian workman walked off with the Mona Lisa. It took the guard several minutes to work himself out of his daze. While the alarms sounded and the detectives hustled through the crowd he remembered a young man who had been copying the painting, a young woman who carried a folding camp stool easily big enough to hide it. Both had disappeared. Valued at anything from $80,000 up, the little picture had been snipped clean from the wires that held it -loosely, to make rescue easy...
...next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself...