Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest laugh in San Francisco-are forever racing cross-country to meet one another. Their frantic reunions are curiously reminiscent of lodge and business conventions, with the same shouts of fellowship, hard drinking, furtive attempts at sexual dalliance-and, after a few days, the same boredom...
...Negroes registered as freshmen at the high school, and five more who attended last year finally announced that they would be back. The day passed without incident. Says Principal W. D. Human, who took over from last year's harassed Principal D. J. Brittain, now on a fellowship at New York University: "Everyone I've talked to in town, and I've talked to a great many, expressed hope for a normal and successful school year...
Metropolitan Opera Bass Jerome Hines heads a Christian Fellowship group of entertainers organized during the crusade. Several Bible study groups were also formed as a result of Graham's work. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney has gathered about a dozen fellow socialites who meet once a week "in an effort to achieve a broader understanding of the Bible." Says Mrs. Whitney: "I think the after effects of this crusade will be extraordinary-the beginning of a reawakening...
Founded and operated for a seemingly infinite variety of reasons, ranging from royal good fellowship, to mutual financial benefit (low-cost insurance), to generously financed works of public good will,† the nation's 248 major fraternal orders (125,861 local chapters) have shared as never before in the golden bounty of U.S. prosperity. Since 1947, overall membership in the Masonic order, biggest U.S. fraternity, has climbed 10% to 4,000,000; the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, second largest, reports a husky 25% gain in new dues-paying brethren to a total of 1,200,000. From...
Funerals & Prizefights. Even as they burn their mortgages, contribute heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend...