Word: demolay
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Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...
SAMUEL H. KIM, Winthrop; DeMolay; University Band; PBH; Intramural Sports...
...Chicago Bureau and went to work on reports that the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125.861 chapters; assets: $10 billion), once the strongholds of U.S. good-fellowship and male society, have suffered a disheartening drop in prestige and attendance. Himself a sometime member of the Masons' DeMolay. Reporter Kiewit core-sampled the fraternal orders in the Midwest, from Elks to Moose to Knights of Pythias. Taking off from the hub of Chicago, TIME queried eight other stringers and correspondents, found a story of a major shift in U.S. social patterns. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Apathy on Lodge Night...
Deciding that gimmicks are not enough, white-thatched, big-time Mason Frank S. Land, 67, of Kansas City, Mo., former Imperial Potentate of the Shrine for North America, who founded Masonry's Order of DeMolay, last week announced a new experimental drive to restore the prestige of the nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry...
Robert H. Secrist, Jr.: Lowell; HDC; Harvard DeMolay, Master Councillor; NROTC rifle team; Union Debate Council; HYRC; Conservative Club...