Word: club
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...wanted to be Prime Minister. We used to kid him a lot about it." The shy, ungainly son of a local newspaper editor and his schoolteacher wife, Clark was an average student who did well in English and public speaking. He became a member of the campus Tory club while earning a B. A. in history at the University of Alberta, and studied law for a year before realizing how much more he enjoyed politics than jurisprudence. Clark returned to Alberta for an M. A. in political science and proceeded to become the most industrious of party drudges -chauffeuring local...
...National Hockey League, miracles never cease; they just run afoul of the Montreal Canadiens. So it was for the New York Rangers, last season's eleventh-place club that climbed this year to the final round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, only to founder, as have so many other miracles in so many other years, when matched against a team that has won championships across seven decades...
...Elkin's Heaven? A celestial froth of every storybook cliché. It is a theme park of pearly gates, angels with harps, ambrosia, manna, a Heavenly choir that sings, "Oh dem golden slippers" and a St. Peter who answers a would-be club member's wonderment with a snobby "We like it." Peter is not entirely accurate. There are lonely child musicians whom God has untimely plucked because he likes a tune now and then. And there are tensions in the best of families...
...plays tennis with Presidential Adviser Jordan and that his father, a wealthy Atlanta real estate developer, was a longtime supporter of Carter's. Corporate leaders have had a hard time taking him seriously since his first meeting with them, when Selig turned up at an exclusive Washington club wearing a leisure suit...
DIED. Thomas K. Scherman, 62, founder, musical director and chief sponsor of the Little Orchestra Society throughout its 27 years; of heart failure; in New York City. Son of the founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Scherman was a prodigy who read music before words, studied with Otto Klemperer, and used his personal wealth to create his own half-size orchestra. Though considered a second-rate conductor, Scherman was admired as an explorer of new music and rediscoverer of such forgotten compositions as Berlioz's L 'Enfance du Christ. He premiered more than 100 orchestral works...