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Businessmen read the results of S.R.I.'s survey with interest. Ex-professor (University of Chicago) Burleigh Gardner, head of S.R.I., had already won the confidence of such business clients as Sears, Roebuck, United Air Lines, General Mills and International Harvester by his skill in testing group reactions to advertising, selling and personnel programs...
...hats: 1) A crystal plastic job, trimmed with red flowers and green plastic leaves, tied together with red wool; designed by Mrs. G. Burleigh Drummond, Oak Ridge...
When he went to Manhattan in 1892, he had as assets a rich baritone and a modest training in the rudiments of music. He got a scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied under the late great Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh's singing of spirituals was Dvorak's chief spur toward the New World Symphony. Burleigh won his St. George's post against 59 other applicants, all white. The deciding vote was cast by the church's senior warden, J. P. Morgan the elder. Morgan later arranged to have Burleigh sing before Edward...
...Palms. Burleigh learned to sing in Hebrew, Latin, Italian, French and German. For 25 years he sang not only in St. George's but also in the choir of Manhattan's best known synagogue, Temple Emanu-El. But his first loyalty has always been to St. George's, and he is a devout Episcopalian. This Lent he hopes to give his 50th rendition of Fauré's The Palms...
...Harry Burleigh lives in The Bronx, has been separated from his wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories...