Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destiny's Boy. Squatly handsome Gordon McRae, 26, believes that his career as a crooner was predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
Destiny, in the form of Selective Service, stepped in again. Two and a half years later, with a "deeper, more virile'' voice, Gordon was back. Last year he crooned to the tune of $100,000. Of his voice, he says: "I sing. My singing isn't intimate or swoony. I just like to get out there and pelt a song across...
...music of the git-fiddle thrummed through the hot Georgia night, setting nerves to throbbing in the little town of Euharlee. In the harsh, yellow light of a lantern, youthful Gordon Miller cried aloud: "I ain't had this power but about a month now. But I got the power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...
...letter of Gordon Ferric Hull, professor emeritus of physics, Dartmouth College, which appeared in your July 28 issue, amazes...
...Captain. Master of the Queen Mary in war, and in her return to peacetime service, is Captain Cyril Gordon Illingworth, 64. The Captain does things the way he learned that they should be done as a cadet (at one shilling a month) in white-hulled, white-topped, square-rigged ships, "with no steam at all." First of his family to follow the sea, he left his Lake District home for the long (about 100 days each way) run through the clean seas that lie between Liverpool's dirty Mersey and Rangoon's dirty Irrawaddy. Out with salt...