Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Count Me In (music & lyrics by Ann Ronell; book by Waiter Kerr & Leo Brady) has Charles Butterworth and Luella Gear (both accomplished comics when they are given half a chance), the nimble dancing feet of Hal Leroy, a fast-paced, fine-feathered chorus and an estimated $100,000 worth of trimmings. What makes it commonplace is its tunes. What bends it over double and finally lays it out flat is its book (about a family who are all in the war except Papa): it stupefies with as dull a book as any in years...
...Russia now" were Admiral William Harrison Standley, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, who flew from the Soviet Union's alternate capital, Kuibyshev, and Major General Follett Bradley of the U.S. Army Air Forces, who flew from Washington with a personal message to Stalin from President Roosevelt. Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, British Ambassador to Russia, also flew in from Kuibyshev. Others were Roger Garreau, head of the Fighting French mission to Moscow, and Major General William Steffens, Norwegian military attache...
...plan was Pastor Hugh Thomson Kerr's of Pittsburgh's prosperous Shadyside Presbyterian Church. He persuaded his church trustees to give him $4,000 for expenses, and then invited run-of-the-pulpit Presbyterian preachers to a week-long series of sessions at Pittsburgh's Western Theological Seminary...
...Says Dr. Kerr: "I've always been impressed by the methods of big business organizations, say the H. J. Heinz Co., in keeping their salesmen on their toes. Every once in a while these salesmen are brought in from their territories. They're given up-to-the-minute information and news of developments, they discuss experiences with each other, and they're shown a good time. Then they go back to their territories-and they get results...
Said a little, greying, bespectacled, small-town preacher: "This is the greatest treat I've had since I've been in the ministry." Dr. Kerr hopes to make the treat annual...