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...Grandison Singers-three guileless-looking Negro girls in their 20s and a tenor-pianist-combine all three styles. They prefer to "take it apart and lay it on the table." When they put it together again it comes out something that might be called "distilled" gospel-a style that forgoes the screaming, stamping frenzies common to many a small church choir but that retains the slogging, sanctified beat of jazz and rhythm 'n' blues. As a close-harmony quartet, the Grandisons exude a curiously mingled air of sex and sanctity...
...Francisco's hungry i last week Sisters Mary and Helen Grandison and Cousin Dottie Webster, hips swaying under plain blue dresses, had every bottle on the bar rattling as they belted out old gospel favorites with poise and trombone clarity. The Grandisons have had little musical training. They left the sawdust trail only this year, after singing in churches all over the South, to try the nightclub circuit. The four write their own arrangements, frequently substitute new words in standard spirituals-e.g. Swing down, sweet chariot/ Stop and let me ride/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock me, Lord/ Rock...
...readers, mostly plant owners and managers, were surprised by the violence with which he reacted in his October issue. "What comedy! What tragedy!" exploded Hartley W. Barclay in an article captioned The True Story of Weirton and illustrated with smiling Weirton workers. Claiming that Trial Examiner Edward Grandison Smith was "obviously prejudiced in favor of the C.I.O.," Editor Barclay called the NLRB "our Ogpu," found its trial methods "farcical," concluded: "This case should be declared a mistrial and dropped...
...bench as Labor Trial examiner was Edward Grandison Smith, for the past ten years president of University of West Virginia's Board of Governors. Through his glasses, honest, deliberate old Mr. Smith looked down on an imposing array of Weirton attorneys headed by Clyde A. Armstrong and opposing them. N. L. R. B.'s youthful prosecutors, 27-year-old John Wolcott Porter and 32-year-old Allen Heald. Behind the lawyers sate loyal Weirton company union men with red, whit & blue badges, side by side with C. I. O. members and organizers with bright yellow...
Products. Among famed U. S. children who have been educated under the Montessori methods are the grandchildren of Alexander Graham Bell: Lilian Waters, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elsie Alexandra Carolyn, children of Editor Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor; Alexander Graham Bell, Barbara, and Nancy Bell, children of Botanist David Grandison Fairchild. In the Hollywood school, chubby Douglas Fairbanks Jr. learned to button shoes, fit blocks, scrape the second fiddle. The Dottoressa never married but her adopted son Mario is a finished product of the system. He is now 31 years old, married to Helen Christie of Cleveland, who teaches at the Opera...