Word: grandes
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Died. Melvin Maynard Johnson, 86, topflight Mason, dean (1935-43) of the Boston University Law School; in Boston. A veteran Masonic official, he was Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. from...
...music lovers wired Community Concerts Association last spring that they had collected $2,000 and wanted a concert series. When Community turned them down on the ground that it was essential to have a piano in town, the citizens of Rangely took up another collection, bought a new Baldwin grand, and got their series, including a male quartet and a two-piano team (which trucked in the second piano...
...GRAND CANYON SUITE (Grofé): Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra...
Taxes are one big item in making commuter traffic a losing proposition. Airlines, trucks and buses serving Manhattan use modern, publicly built terminals and highways. But the New York Central and New Haven shelled out an $11.5 million city tax bill in 1956 on Grand Central Terminal and its 5.4-mile approach, a $2,000,000 increase since 1952. Furthermore, railroads must maintain cut-rate "incentive" commuter fares in hours of peak demand. A New Haven commutation ticket between New York and Greenwich, Conn, cuts the round-trip fare to $1.06 (v. straight-ticket cost of $2.20). Park Forest...
...LION AND THE THRONE, by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Biography in the grand manner; the life and times of Sir Edward Coke, who became the watchdog of the common law, bluntly told British kings that law was their sovereign and defined legal principles that stand triumphant three centuries later...