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Coaches and workmen spent three hours draining and cleaning the tank, but there may be no rowing today, since some remaining residue is temporarily clogging the tank's mechanism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soapy Crew Squad Postpones Practice | 12/14/1955 | See Source »

...picked up the belongings from her fashionable home and began building a new home in the wastelands of the Fenway. She had designed a Venetian palace which would house all her works of art in their proper setting. During construction, Mrs. Jack closely supervised every move of the workmen. The walls of the great courtyard look like Italian pink marble because she herself climbed on the scaffolding to show the workmen just how to achieve that effect with pink and white paint. Her personality pervaded every part of the museum, said Carter, her long-time friend and Museum director since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Brings the Renaissance to Boston | 12/9/1955 | See Source »

...left Thursday, Buildings and Grounds men were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing will begin on Monday, Roberts said. Workmen will also begin re-plastering walls at the time, but will have to wait until the present plaster dries thoroughly before doing any painting, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Eat Lunch Despite Union Damage | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

...Roll 'Em." The announcement stage had been set carefully. On the dance floor of the Boulevard Room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, workmen had put together the setting of a business office. There was a mahogany desk equipped with an "in" box, a telephone and a lectern, with an American flag at one side and a plain grey curtain in the background concealing the nightclub decor. Gathered in the room, on the appointed day, were some 100 reporters and a few politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Not for the Exercise | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Headquarters Casualty. In Sydney, Australia, Marjorie O'Brien demanded ?8 16s, ($20) weekly workman's compensation, charged that she had suffered nervous tension, emotional strain, "aggravation" of high blood pressure while working as a secretary for the Workmen's Compensation Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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