Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newport event this year will feature, besides its pure-bred jazz performers, the music of a new convert named Friedrich Gulda. Gulda is a classical pianist from Austria--about the best Beethoven pianist now extant--who has decided to devote half of his musical time to jazz, and who will introduce some of his own jazz compositions at the Festival...
...beginning of a movement that Trotman called the Navigators, for its nautical origins. For that sailor converted a friend with the technique he had learned from Dawson Trotman, and that convert in turn convinced another. Soon Navigators were spread across the seven seas. At one point during the war there were Navigators in more than 1,000 U.S. Navy ships and stations...
...Jesuits who will be ordained in the Roman Catholic priesthood at New York's Fordham University next week is Avery R. Dulles, 37, youngest son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State. In the current issue of the Jesuit weekly America, Convert Dulles turns a well-honed mind to the 22-year-old National Legion of Decency, the Catholic agency for screening and grading movies for their moral content...
...ordinary shipping trade has all but halted, and demurrage charges are mounting at the rate of $4,200 a day. Soon harbor authorities will face an even worse problem. With the beginning of the monsoon season, the steady downpour of rain will wet much of the uncovered cement and convert it into solid mass...
...venerable, 500-store Jones Brothers Tea Co. Four years later, after Weed and Shield had put Jones Brothers in the black, they regrouped it with several smaller chains into Grand Union Co. But over the years, Weed and Shield began to disagree strongly on whether Grand Union should convert its small, over-the-counter stores into self-service supermarkets. After powerful stockholders backed Shield in 1946, Weed retired and Shield took over...