Word: chautauquas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chautauqua Symphony (Sun. 3:15 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Concerto No. 5 in A Major for Violin. Soloist: William Kroll...
...most of his life, Donald Douds has been within earshot of the word of God. Born in Chautauqua, N.Y., the son of a Presbyterian minister, he went to Presbyterian-supported Wooster College in Ohio, then to Union Theological Seminary. In his spare time at the seminary, he worked on the staff of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, at Manhattan's Riverside Church. He was finally ordained in the Congregational Church in Florida. His first parish was Miami Shores, and he started work there the day after his wedding...
...Sundays, emphasis is on music, with such features as the Chautauqua Symphony and the community sings...
...ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned in a well, wherefore his brother Yip became king...
...hands of good people. . . .I say you have no right to be poor. . . ." Conwell gave the lecture 6,000 times, for fees ranging from $100 to $500. Each night, after deducting his expenses, he mailed the money to some "deserving" boy to help him through college. Chautauqua was like that...