Cronin's, Club, Fight for Harvard Owned Building on Mt. Auburn St.

Jim's Place will have a modern cocktail lounge within a month--provided that talks with Harvard go well.

The University now owns the property running near Cronin's on Mt. Auburn Storrt, where the lounge would go. John Cronin, proprietor, says that he has asked the University to grant him a 15 year lease on the Mt. Auburn Street property, similar to the lease on his Dunster St. acreage.

But an "independent undergraduate organization" has asked the University for the building. The club and Cronin's will have to battle it out with the College, but Cronin thinks he has a fair chance of winning out, since the unidentified club is not a registered Harvard organization.

In 1949, Cronin's signed a lease with Harvard that will keep the plant at its Dunster Street site for at least 15 years.