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...Prime mover of the drive for classical church music is cherubic, inexhaustible Dr. Clarence Dickinson, 71, director of the School of Sacred Music at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He has written or arranged some 500 anthems and chorales, edits the standard Presbyterian Hymnal, has trained some 300 U.S. church music directors. Now, as chairman of the American Guild of Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into...
...Prime mover of the Sears experiment is forthright, pink-cheeked General Robert Elkington Wood, 65-year-old Sears board chairman. An aggressive merchandiser, West Pointer Wood has long dreamed of chancing the Mexican market, but risks have always tempered his enthusiasm. They still do. Said Bob Wood last week: "Hell, this is strictly . . . a gamble . . . [but] we're hoping it will be a success and then we can go on and expand in Latin America...
...started at the bottom; his first job (1906) was as a clerk in the superintendent's office on the Burlington, at Sheridan, Wyo. Gurley stayed with the Burlington for 33 years, moving up through the operating department to become assistant vice president in 1936; he was a prime mover in Burlington's pioneer work with streamlined diesel trains...
Heading the committee are Alexis V. Tellis, chairman of the Year Book, and William J. Rickey, business manager. Other members from Harvard include Frank Farwell, Stanley Fayman, Robert Henninger, John Hollis, George Menkes, Eliot Mover, Travis Nelson, Robert Schaeberle, and Charles Williams...
...committee is headed by Alexis V. Tellis, chairman of the Yearbook, and William J. Hickey, business manager. Other members of the Harvard group are Frank Farwell, Stanley Fayman, Robert Henninger, John Hollis, George Menkes, Eliot Mover, Travis Nelson, Robert Sehaeberle, and Charles Williams...