Word: hancock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Supreme Court's appellate division reversed a $4,604 workmen's compensation award to Business Executive Guy F. Hancock, who was badly injured in a plunge from a hotel balcony while on a business trip to Chicago. Reason: Hancock fell in the act of tossing "hats and coats over the balcony railing," apparently after too many drinks. Said the court: "The frequenting of cocktail lounges with unknown female companions cannot be considered part of employment under the guise that this is accepted business activity...
...Space is So Startling" closed at John Hancock Hall Saturday night, and not a moment too soon...
They used to joke in Lexington, Mass., that new residents didn't need to join a country club-they already had the Hancock Congregational Church. The gibe was unjust, but for a time it almost seemed as if Sunday worship services were lost in a crowded weekly calendar of dances, card parties, and other social affairs. Then, in 1948, a young engineer named Albert Wilson persuaded his new minister at Hancock, the Rev. Roy Pearson, to support a group of couples who would gather periodically for the study of Scripture and the mutual exploration of Christ's message...
...step that killed most of the cracks about the "Hancock Country Club." Today, the church has ten such groups of dedicated parishioners and their friends who meet for serious religious study in one another's houses. Dozens of other churches in the area have imitatively organized their own small study groups. Such gatherings, says Dr. Pearson, now dean of Andover Newton Theological School, show people "trying to be the church as the church ought...
...conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief of the smallest fire department in America...