Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BEYOND THE DREAMS OF AVARICE (339 pp.)-Russell Kirk-Henry Regnery...
...that rim Chicago's lakefront is a pleasant, peaceful thing: the streams of cars on Lake Shore Drive, the narrow strips of green park, the rock-ribbed beaches, the glistening lake with its splashing bathers, and, in the distance, a crisp sail. From his 15th floor apartment, A. Kirk Besley, 53, superintendent of Chicago's Norwegian American hospital, often passed the time at his picture window studying the scene through his binoculars...
...novelty on the program was Kirk Mechem's amusing Rules for Behavior (1955). Effectively written, it shows much the same style and spirit as Irving Fine's Alice in Wonderland music. Also of recent vintage was "The Promise of Living" from Copland's opera The Tender Land. This warm work needs a slightly larger body of singers. The concert ended with Vaughan William's hearty Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, which wanted only a more robust accompaniment...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, 64, globetrotting head (since 1950) of the National Council of Churches' Department of International Affairs, co-founder (with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles) of the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (1946), longtime (1925-50) executive secretary of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of International Justice and Goodwill, special adviser to the U.S. delegation at the founding (1945) of the United Nations in San Francisco, onetime (1934-49) popular radio commentator (NBC's Religion in the News) and sometime author (A Christian Global Strategy...
Grayson Louis Kirk, president of Columbia University LL.D...