Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will also be two more Regional conferences to prepare for and participate in later on, but Council duties should keep them well occupied between times. The by then all-knowing delegates will be a bulwark in Council activities, for as experts in special fields they should participate in and chair Council committees. So when the voters go to the polls on Monday they should look for the men with the strong shoulders. Any candidate who already feels the ache between his shoulder-blades might better drop out now than be crushed under the load later...
...Barton Leach '20, professor of Law, will chair the meeting, which will also be adrressed by Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, and Frederick W. Roche, attorney for the Boston law firm of Maguire and Roche...
...says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra, a writer of children's books, who sat in her book-lined front parlor and dished out the rocking-chair Communist advice that Mora has followed for years...
...doorman was right. Manhattan concertgoers, to whom child prodigies were no novelty, were wild about Ervin Laszlo. His flashing performance of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy might have made any of his elders envious. Second-chair critics, who attend dozens of recitals a year and stoically put up with a lot of willing but perfunctory performers, found themselves using first-chair words of praise. "One searches his memory in vain," wrote the New York Times's Noel Straus, "for another so richly endowed with all of the factors that make for extraordinary and completely satisfying piano playing...
...cornfield in 1919, Evangelist John Elward Brown planted an interdenominational college to spread his gospel of "God, honest toil and motherhood." Last week, at 69, President John Brown of John Brown University decided that the Lord needed him back on the evangelist's trail. He turned over his chair to son John Elward Jr., a J.B.U. graduate ('42) and ex-Navy officer. That made "Beddie" Brown, at 26, probably the youngest university head...