Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Truman rode over to St. Louis from Independence this week to honor one of his favorite clergymen : Rabbi Samuel Thurman, 71, for 40 years in charge of St. Louis' United Hebrew Congregation. Rabbi Thurman, like Truman a 33rd degree Mason, had worked with him for many years in state Masonic activities; in 1949 he offered a prayer at Truman's inauguration, the second rabbi in history to participate in a presidential inaugural.- Others at the Jefferson Hotel's banquet table were the Very Rev. Paul C. Reinert, S.J., president of Roman Catholic St. Louis University...
...actors, too, were chosen for their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
...School Tie. In Mason, Mich., after Sheriff Willard Barnes complained in the Lansing State Journal that the County Jail was short of blankets and mattresses, he received two new blankets with an unsigned note: "As a minor [alumnus], may I take this opportunity to make a small contribution to my Alma Mater during the current emergency...
Dean Edward S. Mason of the Graduate School of Public Administration said that no date has yet been set for next year's series of three lectures. In the past the Godkins have usually been given in late January, but Adlai E. Stevenson, this year's lecturer, delivered his talks during the week of March...
When a Kirkland man propounds the myth that his is the "friendly" House, the House with "spirit," he is subverting the ideal that his Master, Mason Hammond '25 once set forth for a House community: It must rest, he said, on a delicate balance between "pressure and laissez-faire, hollow heartiness and selfish isolation; in short, between the claims of the individual and these of the whole...