Word: christian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the trustees made up their minds, appointed a fifth churchman, Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, 50, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. But while Dr. Nash is an ordained minister, his resemblance to his predecessors ends there. Dr. Drury was high church. Dr. Nash is low church and anything but austere...
Bowl Games: Sugar (Mon. 2 p.m. NBC-Blue), Texas Christian v. Carnegie Tech at New Orleans; Orange (2:15 p.m. CBS), Tennessee v. Oklahoma at Miami; Rose (5 p.m. NBC-Red), Duke v. Southern California at Pasadena; also East v. West All Stars (4:45 p.m. MBS) from San Francisco...
...comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...
Though known to inquisitive record collectors through a few recordings of curiously wailing, syncopated spirituals,† Mitchell's Christian Singers had never before sung at a formal concert. Their spirituals were sung with touching solemnity, and with the intensity and abandon of hot jazz. Both jitterbugs and highbrows heartily approved them...
Mitchell's Christian Singers all grew up in Kinston, where two drive trucks, one is a carpenter and one a tobacco-factory hand. Being good friends, they gradually drifted into the habit of singing together in the evenings after work. Being musically illiterate, they invented their own songs...