Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rose-colored view of a divided Christendom comes from an ex-British, China-born Methodist minister who teaches economics, preaches sermons, and performs marriages at California's Mills College. From behind his usual king-sized cigaret, short, russet-haired Dr. George Hedley last week explained his double job: "You see, the Dean of Chapel at Mills is a layman, so he couldn't perform marriages. I am an ordained minister. . . . When I first came ... in 1940 the Dean of Chapel and I made an arrangement. He taught one of my courses and I gave half the sermons...
...there are many genuine services that we, as a news organization, are especially equipped to perform, and our request-fulfillment batting average is pretty good. Recently, for example, we have suggested the clinic best fitted to handle a case of Hodgkin's disease; supplied the addresses of public citizens who move around too fast for friends to keep in touch with them; forwarded a list of appraisers to a Netherlands reader with a collection of rare coins to sell (he hoped that the proceeds would provide an education for his children); offered what guidance we could to discharged veterans...
...half-barbaric King yearns to improve himself and his backward country-but without once relaxing his regal prerogatives. Nor does he wish to accept too much help from someone who is not only a foreigner but also a lowly woman. To hold and secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward the classical...
...remaining games on the spring schedule, BU and Yale," Samborski declared last night, "and all students-veterans and civilians-will be able to play in the games arranged for the summer term." However, any veteran who attended another college as a civilian will not be able to perform against Boston University and Yale...
...turn a trick. He paid $12 million to Benjamin Brown Gossett for his mills in Charlotte, N.C. and Anderson, S.C., thus adding twelve southern mills to Textron's 13 in New England, and more than doubling Textron's cotton and rayon capacity. But Little still has to perform his main trick-making Textron the most integrated and most profitable U.S. textile company...