Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macbetto was Baritone Jess Walters, a 32-year-old Brooklynite of modest stature but big voice. Philadelphian Florence Kirk, 27, as his indomitable Lady, prowled and strode upstage & down, drove her soprano hard, managed by sheer intensity to make Via, ti dico, o maledetta! sound as if it really were Out, damned spot...
Died. Mary Kirk Simpson, 45, successor to the present Duchess of Windsor as wife of Ernest Simpson; in Wiltshire, England. She introduced Wallis to Simpson...
...first concern of all," said Jewish Co-Chairman Roger W. Straus in summing up the conference, "was that totalitarianism be crushed." Catholic Co-Chairman Carlton J. H. Hayes was applauded for saying America must end her "aloofness and holier-than-thou attitude." Even Protestant Pacifist Walter Van Kirk, head of the National Peace Conference and secretary of the Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace, acknowledged that "the use of force is not immoral for the preservation of law and order by a world society that is heroically bent upon establishing justice...
...Roosevelt-Churchill blueprint of tomorrow's world. This will come as a disappointment to Protestants, Catholics and Jews, many of whom are now in jails and concentration camps because they would not surrender the right to worship God each in his own way.-Dr. Walter Van Kirk, secretary of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just & Durable Peace...
Appointed (effective next February) associate dean of Harvard's famed Graduate School of Business Administration (see p. 59) was Donald Kirk David, president of American Maize Products, director of R. H. Macy and Standard Brands, trustee for Manhattan's potent Bowery Savings Bank. He taught at the Business School in 1920-27, is slated to be dean when Wallace Brett Donham retires...