Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shrine for North America, who founded Masonry's Order of DeMolay, last week announced a new experimental drive to restore the prestige of the nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry Darby, ex-President Harry Truman. Such VIPs, duly enlisted, hopes Booster Land, will constitute "a band of leaders, men with Stardust on them...
...minute intermission. And he insisted that there be no pause or lowering of curtain between scenes, a demand that fortunately Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's ingeniously mobile slatted sets and a precision-drilled stage crew have been able to meet. He moves his cast fluidly over the stage and the apron that projects into the audience; his blocking of characters is imaginative and tastefully unmechanical; and the "stage business" and byplay are always meaningful.S...
Harvard and Radcliffe have already made final decisions as to the formal specifications of the building. It will include an amphitheatre-auditorium which should seat about 600 persons, a large stage stretching towards the audience--a compromise between the conventional proscenium stage and the newer apron stage, and a practice stage with a smaller auditorium, for rehearsals and "workshop" productions...
...startling as the saucerlike oval sheltering Pan American World Airways' passengers and planes. In plans for Pan Am's $8.000,000 jet-age terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers who do not have to go through customs will get their baggage within five minutes from a speedy conveyer belt...
...Radcliffe work program, which allegedly keeps down the price of room and board. Instead of the Harvard situation, where scholarship boys work to pay their own way through school, all the Radcliffe girls work to lower their common rates. Besides bell duty, the Cliffite can also don white apron and hair net two or three times a week to "wait on" in the dining hall...