Word: lecterns
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Franklin Roosevelt's wheel chair stood near the wall. Chairs had been arranged, a small lectern, and a piano. The warm, flower-scented room filled with Franklin Roosevelt's family and friends, the top men of the U.S., representatives of the foreign world-the new President, Harry Truman, the cabinet, Britain's Anthony Eden, Russia's Andrei Gromyko, King Ibn Saud's son Emir Faisal, stately in an Arab burnoose. The pianist struck a chord, the mourners stood to sing the hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save...
...speech was to be made, the local committee was told in advance just how high the lectern must be. The best method for a Dewey entrance was finally worked out : he waited in the wings until the introductory speaker intoned his name, then walked briskly forward, accompanied by his wife...
...Rogers-authored textbook, Paragraphs on Printing (William E. Rudge's Sons; $10. Special Edition $25). It contains no less than 100 reproductions of Rogers' fastidious artistry -title pages, half titles, tailpieces, imprints, bookplates, pure type decorations. Notable are three inserts of pages from Rogers' magnificent Oxford Lectern Bible, finished...
...time jobs since, except for eight years' association with the late William E. Rudge (to whom Paragraphs is dedicated). A widower, he now spends most of his time at his New Fairfield, Conn, house near Candlewood Lake. Honored by degrees from Yale, Purdue and Harvard, he plans another lectern Bible, is finishing up odds & ends of jobs started years ago. His biggest immediate problem: to get his power lawn mower working so that he can run it over his Connecticut acre of grass...
...addressed the student body: overcome with emotion, she clung to the lectern, nearly collapsed. Then, after two days as Meiling, she continued on her mission: to Chicago, to San Francisco...