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...elder brother (now a doctor in Tacoma), he worked his way through Grinnell College. He was also a member of the state tennis team. He wanted to publish a newspaper in Montana, but instead he took his first job as a Director of Boys Work with Christodora House, a "settlement" institution on Avenue B, Manhattan. From that time on he held nothing but jobs as a social worker or relief giver?with the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, largest private charity in Manhattan, with the Reform Administration of Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, with the Board of Child...
...Harry Hopkins is no typical settlement worker. He plays bridge and poker, takes a drink now and then, belongs to no church. He married a social worker, had three sons, was divorced and married again. A psychoanalyst told him he was repressed because he had been the middle child in his family, had had little attention. He makes friends easily not only with spinster social workers whom he kids along but with politicians, artists and writers...
...City College has in Nat Holman a remarkable coach. In 15 years Holman's teams at C. C. N. Y. have won 173 games, lost 41. Born and bred on Manhattan's East Side, Nat Holman learned basketball where many another crack Jewish player started, in a settlement-house gymnasium. While studying at C. C. N. Y. he did not play on the college team, but turned professional, signed in 1920 with a team called "The Original Celtics." Holman played with the Celtics for eight years, during which they won an average of 120 out of 130 games...
Radio and newsmen wondered last week whether the new agreement was really a settlement of the old controversy or only one more excuse to keep it alive. The squabble between newspapers and radio began in earnest last summer when Columbia started its own news-gathering bureau. In two months Paul White, onetime United Pressman, had organized a staff of 600 correspondents. Columbia's News Service was successful but NBC, whose President Aylesworth is a bosom crony of A. P.'s Kent Cooper, had not had time to project a similar bureau before newspapers began strenuously objecting to Columbia...
James M. Estabrook '34, head of the Student Social Workers Committee of the Phillips Brooks House, announces a drive to interest undergraduates in working with the Red Cross, as teachers in English and naturalization classes, and as boys' workers in the settlement houses of the tenement districts of Boston and Cambridge. Volunteers are asked to report at Phillips Brooks House before Saturday between 9 and 12 o'clock...