Word: bowker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BOWKER San Francisco, Calif...
...professors three times a week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one of the choir's 39 Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy ("She's a nut about Bach," says Jones); blind Fay Linn, who moved from Philadelphia just to sing in the choir, and learned...
FIFTY YEARS OF BESTSELLERS, 1895-1945_///ce Payne Hacketf-R. R. Bowker...
From 50 annual lists published by the Bookman, by Books of the Month (now Bowker Book Guides), and by her own Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant...
...Wolff says a libel suit against the '40 Crimson editors wasn't his idea. It wasn't the editors' idea either; anyone can look in the February 7 Transcript and see that it was Mr. Benjamin Bowker's, who has worked for Mr. Wolff for years. In fact, the grapevine has been humming of a prospective suit for months. Yet Mr. Wolff has it all figured out that he is a poor helpless fly entangled in a spider's web, and that his decision to sue is an act of martyrdom. Actually, none of his points in support of this...