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...second term in office in historic Blair House,* a 124-year-old, four-story yellow stucco house on Pennsylvania Avenue, which the State Department bought six years ago to house distinguished visitors from abroad. Cheek by jowl with it is Lee House, which the President will also take over. Workmen are already cutting out a connecting doorway...
Inch by Inch. The work of surveying the mansion, went slowly because for big sections of the house there were no blueprints. To locate old beams, test old brick, discover where generations of workmen had installed gas lines, electric wiring and plumbing, investigators were probing into walls, chipping off plaster, going over everything inch by inch...
...afternoon the executive board of the Associated Harvard Clubs meets in its Commonwealth Avenue headquarters to hand down a "yes" or a "no" or a "maybe" on the Saltonstall Committee's choice of a University War Memorial. If the answer is "yes," it will be final and irrevocable, and workmen will soon begin setting the $70,000 inscription into the walls of Memorial Church. And if the answer is "yes," the gentlemen who head the Harvard Clubs will have violated the democratic principle upon which their organization is founded, and upon which Harvard should choose a memorial to its World...
...Workmen on the $3,000,000 project are completing plastering and installation of the stacks, are well along in laying the floors, and have begun painting...
Safety Catch. In San Diego, workmen at the U.S. Grant Hotel reported that they had to scramble to a safer place when a fire broke out on the fire escape they were installing...