Word: barnette
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in China, proud of his part during the 1922-27 persecution that "took Christianity off the shelf and made it a living issue along the Yangtze," and now determined that the Y will not rest on its oars or live off its fat. His name is Eugene Epperson Barnett. He is General Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s National Council and International Committee...
...diversified are its activities that many an outsider forgets it is a religious organization, thinks of it as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with swimming pools, gymnasiums and clean beds. But Florida-born Eugene Barnett knows it where it is poorer and tougher, for this is his first job in 30 years outside the Y's foreign service. From 1910 to 1936 he was on duty in China. From 1937 to 1940 he was globe-trotting as head of the Y's World Service Program in 28 countries...
Consulting wizard of the Radio Theatre is Cecil Blount De Mille. Nominally producer of the show, De Mille nowadays does little more than serve as commentator, leaves actual work of whipping programs together to Director Sanford Howard Barnett. Only when particularly knotty problems occur does De Mille contribute a bit of sage advice. Once, when animal imitators were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted...
...time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week for his stint, sits quietly through rehearsals, patiently corrects his script as Barnett suggests. But he blossoms out each Monday night. Stars usually attend Radio Theatre premieres in slacks and sport clothes. De Mille, when not busy on a picture, wears a trim business suit which he dons in his dressing room on reaching the theatre. When he is busy, he goes...
...More than 1,000 torchlit Panamanians marched to the British and French Consulates in sympathy demonstrations, cheered and sang as emotion-choked French Vice Consul Pierre Mory thanked them, heard British Consul Lawrence Barnett express the British determination to continue...