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...loomed up & down its aisles with the collection plate, left it a $500,000 endowment in his will. Another is social service work, eloquently represented in such liberals as Dr. Karl Reiland and its present pastor, Elmore McNeill McKee. Another is its 72-year-old barytone soloist, Harry Thacker Burleigh, a Negro...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...
...native of Erie, Pa., Harry Burleigh left his job as janitor when he won a four-year scholarship to Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music. Head of the Conservatory was Anton Dvorak. After supper, Dvorak would coax another Negro song out of young Burleigh's teeming repertory. Shortly afterwards appeared Dvorak's New World symphony, the first to use Negro spirituals...
...institutions is Ray Doan's Baseball School, transplanted this year from Hot Springs, Ark. to Jackson, Miss. Ray Doan, a forthright promoter, once managed the bearded House of David baseball team. He specializes in big-name "professors" (this year he has engaged Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Street), lures some 300 pupils every spring thereby. In six years 500 Doan graduates have found jobs in organized baseball-mostly in Class D leagues where they might have landed the same job by going directly to the club for a tryout...
Divorced. Burleigh Grimes, 45, crack spitball pitcher of the 19205; from his second wife, Laura Virginia Grimes ; in Union, Mo. Charge: "general indignities." Died. Mrs. Charles W. Gamble ("Mollie Ticklepitcher"), 51; of cancer; in Jasper, Tenn. A tank town actress, she hoaxed Phillips Lord into letting her speak over his We, the People radio program by passing herself off as a backwoods midwife (TIME...