Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas where Graham preaches, Catholics are generally advised by their priests not to attend. But numbers of those making "decisions for Christ" at Graham's meetings turn out to be Roman Catholics (whose "pledge cards" are duly passed along to Catholic churches). Father Kelly feels that "it seems time to be specific." ¶ "Rev. Billy Graham is an ordained Baptist minister. Billy's crusades are definitely Protestant services [in which] Catholics are not permitted to participate...
...last minute attempt to take the Committee's finances out of the red, the Jubilee group has decided to allow upper-classmen to attend its Friday night dance-concert. Among the performers at the Union event will be Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins, and Milt Hinton...
...Chamber of Commerce wired a withdrawal of the invitation, and Dr. Powell, who at first insisted that he would attend, finally bowed out. In Toledo, Negro Civic Leader Ella Phillips Stewart heard about the ruckus and decided that she would not accept her invitation. In Chicago, Roosevelt University Sociology Professor St. Clair Drake also received an invitation, but the word from Richmond was that his invitation-as well as any others that had slipped through the racial screen-would be withdrawn...
...Board of Health in Tennessee's Davidson County (which includes Nashville) struck out on a bold new line last week. No child, ruled the board, may attend school in the county-public, private
...opera buffs, Saturday afternoon is a dedicated time. Many communities have formed opera luncheons and listening clubs in homes, music stores, auditoriums and churches across the U.S. More solitary listeners pull shades, take the phone off the hook and even lock their doors. Wrote one fan, too old to attend the Met any more: "On Saturdays, I get my black velvet dress out of its box. And I dress my hair and put a fresh flower in a vase beside me. After all, I am to spend the afternoon with dukes and duchesses." In the '305, when...