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GEORGE F. HOUSEMAN SR. Philadelphia
...Uncle Robert." Raised on a plantation in Virginia's south-side Brunswick County, Lucile Turner first learned about Negro music from "Uncle Robert," a colored houseman who took her as a child to Negro prayer meetings. Later, after a fashionable private-school education, she studied music at Boston's New England Conservatory. For years she so thoroughly steeped herself in Negro music that she could create it as naturally as the Negroes themselves...
...more recent years Dooley has worked in the Federal Theater Project with John Houseman and Orson Welles, played in The Show-Off, Androcles and the Lion and the Broadway production of Cabin in the Sky. He is as reticent and earnest as his musical interpretations. His wife is a onetime physiotherapist who trained in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. They have a five-room house in Los Angeles. Dooley spends his spare time on a victory garden where, besides vegetables, he is raising chickens by the hundred. Last week, having finished his run in Greenwich Village, he sighed with relief...
...seldom-varying routine. He wakes at 10. His houseman, a young Italian named Johnny Garry, fetches him coffee, mail and papers. Walker then shaves, showers, dons slacks and lounges until noon. Then he dresses and spends a couple of hours sorting column material and answering the phone (he has three, one with a shut-off device, scattered around the apartment). About 2 he walks to the News office, where his . column usually takes some two hours to type...
TIME'S mention in Letters of Ogontz, from which the well-known girls' school receives its name, does not reveal the origin of the name. Ogontz was an old Indian who served as a houseman in the home of my grandfather Erasmus Cooke at Sandusky, Ohio. My father often related to me how Ogontz used to carry him and also his cousin, the first Jay Cooke, piggie-back through the woods. When Jay Cooke and my father came to Philadelphia to enter the banking business, memories of Ogontz were so vivid that when Jay Cooke built his handsome...