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...typical day called for an early morning handshaking stint at a couple of MTA stations, some campaigning in the Roxbury area, a tour of a clothing factory, winding up the morning at the John Hancock building and with its 5200 employees. The afternoon was devoted to personal administrative matters and the evening was taken up by several rallies and a fund raising champagne dinner...
...Amsterdam (1924-34). San Francisco (1935-52), London (from 1961 on), guest conductor of close to 100 more-a maestro with a calm, precise technique that generally brought out the best both in the musicians and music; of a brain hemorrhage following a fall; at his home near Hancock...
...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...
...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...