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Died. George B. Henderson, 78, co-founder in 1939 of the Sheraton hotel chain; in Boston. After World War I, Henderson teamed up with his brother Ernest in a family brokerage firm in Boston. With Ernest's former Harvard roommate, Robert Moore, the brothers began acquiring New England real estate during the early '30s, and in 1937 they bought their first hotel. Two years later they acquired the Boston Sheraton, named after the 18th century English furniture designer; because the hotel's electric rooftop sign was so expensive to remove they adopted the Sheraton name that...
...Downey's Messiah is a vaudevillian, his devil is a figure of preposterous melodrama-a glowering, gun-toting saloonkeeper named Greaser (Albert Henderson) who keeps his mother behind bars ("You'll always be my favorite," she reassures him) and who suffers from chronic constipation. His trips to the privy are state occasions, with his retinue of dim-witted subordinates nervously circling outside, awaiting glad tidings of relief that are never forthcoming...
BONNIE K. HENDERSON...
...during the 1960s, compared with only a 35% increase for whites. Banks and other loan agencies have made it easier for blacks to borrow money for vacations. "And I jokingly tell some of them that a trip is the only thing that can't be repossessed," quips Freddye Henderson, operator of Atlanta-based Henderson Travel Service, one of the largest black travel agencies...
Four of the members of the Committee--Vivian Henderson, President of Clark College in Atlanta; Louis D. Rich, a Radcliffe trustee and associate director of the College Entrance Examination Board; Andrew Billingsly, vice president for academic affairs at Howard University; and, Wade H. McCree Jr., a member of the Board of Overseers and a U.S. Appeals Court judge in Detroit--were selected from outside the University...