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...transfer to the University of Dumbarton Oaks, one of the most famous old homes in Gerogetown, D. C., and the "Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections" was announced yesterday...
...Dumbarton Oaks stands just across Rock Creek from the nation's capital. The house was built about 1800 and was long the home of John C. Calhoun of North Carolina, as Senator, Secretary of War, and Vice-President. A plot of land was deeded with the mansion, but the largest part of the property surrounding the house has been presented to the District of Columbia as a public park...
...concert is open to the public without charge, and without tickets. The program will be: Concerto, "Dumbarton Oaks"; Octet for Wind Instruments; Concerto for two pianos, played by Mr. Strawinsky and Adele Marcus; and "Histoire d'un Soldat...
...program, which is open to the public, includes: Concerto, "Dumbarton Oaks"; Octet for Wind Instruments; Concerto for two pianos, played by Mr. Strawinsky and Adele Marcus; and "Histoire d'un Soldat." Mr. Strawinsky, a noted composer and musician, announces that the program will be free of charge...
Scottish David Kirkwood, M. P. for Dumbarton Burghs on the ship-building Clyde, depends for Parliamentary repartee largely on two phrases: "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" (when he has made a killing shot); and "I don't give a damn" (when he has been worsted). Once he was suspended from the House for swearing at the Speaker. Last week the vaulted ceiling of the House rumbled with his rolling r's as he declared that millions of acres of land devoted to deer parks in Scotland (see map), most of it owned by titled gentry...