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...hour in 1950; today they get $1.60. Virtually every club loses on its dining room. The club kitchen must always stand ready to serve food to a hundred or a handful. "And believe it or not," complains President G. Walter Ostrand of Chicago's big, choosy Medinah Club, "breakage of dishes and disappearance of silver costs us $5,000 to $10,000 a year...
...noisy meeting, attended by 2,500 shareholders in Chicago's ornate Medinah Temple last week, Sewell Lee Avery retained control of giant Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. The proxy showdown found the forces of Louis Wolfson claiming only 2,125,000 shares, against a management claim of 5,400,000. There was little doubt that when the final tally was announced May 13, Wolfson would have no more than three, and possibly only one of the nine seats on the Ward board...
...Gordon G. Johnson hung up his dentist's drill, got a bite to eat and headed for Medinah Temple, Chicago headquarters of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Doc made a beeline for the third floor where the Temple's Oriental band was gathering...
...first big event on the schedule was the parade down Michigan Avenue: Doc Johnson's boys and some 1,500 other temple bandsmen; the Medinah nobles in $42,500 worth of new uniforms; the country's leading citizens decked out like Zouaves and harem guards; Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun of Tyler, Tex., sitting in a car in a bower of 120,000 Texas roses; 1,000 chanters (glee clubs), drill teams, the mounted Pinto Patrol from Oklahoma City, the Black Horse Patrol from the Kansas City, Mo. Ararat Temple (whose most illustrious noble is Harry S. Truman...
...Pote." After the parade, wealthy Medinah Temple, which values its building, equipment, robes, rugs, fezzes and investments at more than $2,000,000, becomes the center of formal activities. Noble high jinks on Chicago's street corners and in Chicago bars are left to individual enterprise. For the climax, on stage at Medinah Temple, a new Imperial Potentate (sometimes referred to as the "Pote") would be named. This year he was no less a person than Harold Clayton Lloyd, of Burchard, Neb. and Los Angeles, Calif., better known as the comedian hero of such Jazz Age films...