Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cloudy afternoon last week, twelve men trudged up into the belfry of Lehigh University's ivied Packer Memorial Chapel, uncased shining trombones and lined up before their director. Sharp at 3:30, the first brassy notes of a chorale blared out across the leafy maples and echoed through the nearby streets of steelmaking Bethlehem, Pa. For the thousands on the'campus below, many of them visitors from all over the U.S., the 50th annual Bethlehem Bach Festival had begun...
Inside the chapel, as the last notes of the heralding chorales died away, the 236 members of the great festival choir filed into their seats in the chancel in back of the orchestra. Boston's E. Power Biggs slid onto his bench at the organ. The soloists, including the Metropolitan Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According...
...year-old Frank Matthews' first big public job. After developing a good law practice in Omaha, he had branched out into business, become head of two loan companies, vice president of a radio-TV station, a director of other corporations. A devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty on the Vatican staff...
...least one, possibly two, Communists had received the handouts. One was 23-year-old Hans Freistadt, part-time physics instructor at the University of North Carolina who got $1,600 for studying general relativity at the university. In Chapel Hill, Communist Freistadt, a naturalized Austrian, made no bones about his party membership...
...Battell Chapel bell struck 5, a Skull & Bones man, a Scroll & Key man and a Berzelius man whacked Jackson on the shoulder in rapid succession. Following the established decorum for a junior with other ideas, Jackson shook his head to the first two. But to the Berzelius man he nodded, then walked to his room...