Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Partnership. Ruth Kerr is a Baptist. "Anything I've done," she says earnestly, "was accomplished because of what God has done." God has been a partner in the company since 1902, when debt-ridden Alexander Kerr, an obscure wholesale grocery man, took the tithing vow at Portland, Ore. Three months later, Kerr took a chance: he borrowed money to buy a patent on a glass vacuum jar that could be sealed at home. Kerr got a San Francisco glass works to supply his materials, and in four years had a profitable business...
...carried the rest of the cast into the spirit of the thing with her: even though some of his voice has gone to Valhalla, Wagnerian Tenor Max Lorenz couldn't have been more convincing as the dissolute, incestuous Herod; and Baritone Joel Berglund, as Jokanaan (John the Baptist), had the starkness of a primitive carving as he hurled his curses on Salome. When the curtain was down, instead of morosely reaching for their coats, the audience stood up and applauded in a 15-minute ovation. Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson next morning: "One of the great...
...Nasty Things." Battery D eyed bespectacled Captain Truman with disfavor and suspicion. He was a Baptist and a Mason. "We thought he was a bit prissy," Tommy Murphy recalled. A story, probably apocryphal, but which Battery D still tells and snickers over, was that one day Captain Truman shrilled at two AWOLs: "You spoiled our record, you nasty things...
...Likely to Win. "Rock Bros." is a blend of the Rockefellers' own brand of business acumen and Baptist ethics. Born to be rich, but bred to be philanthropists, the sons & daughter of John D. Rockefeller Jr.-John D. III, 42; Nelson, 40; Laurance, 38; Winthrop, 36; David, 33; and Mrs. Irving Pardee, 45-worry over where their money will do the greatest good, and still bring a reasonable return...
...Wife: Oh, yes. I and the children go to this Baptist church on the corner. I am not a member, but if our oldest girl decides to join, I may join with...