Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curtain-raiser for the Freshman Frolie, the first important dance in the Union this year, the "Follies of '45", will be presented this evening at 8:30 o'clock, according to Yardling John Alcorn, who is in charge of the production...
...first time in 54 years U.S. Protestantism will have to get along without the active help of its most famous organizer and greatest money-raiser. John R. Mott's resignation as chairman of the International Missionary Council became effective at once, and his place is being filled temporarily by liberal, mission-wise Methodist Bishop James Chamberlain Baker of Los Angeles...
Cozy little Tropical, founded by ex-Bootlegger Big Bill Dwyer in 1931, is the perennial curtain raiser of the U.S. winter racing season. Snubbed by the East's upper crust and its gold-plated horses, Tropical managed nevertheless to keep things going until neighboring Hialeah and California's Santa Anita, headliners of the winter program, were ready for their...
Died. The Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, 91, Episcopal Bishop Emeritus of Massachusetts; in Milton, Mass. Member of a famed, textile-wealthy New England family, he attracted attention outside the church as a phenomenal fund raiser. He got $5,000,000 for Harvard from George F. Baker, raised $1,000,000 for Wellesley, $1,000,000 for increased Harvard teaching salaries, raised $8,500,000 to start the Church Pension Fund for retired Episcopal clergymen. He became Bishop at 42, served actively for 33 years. His son, the Rt. Rev. William Appleton Lawrence, is Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts...
...tall and handsome as Harper was dumpy and homely, dimple-chinned Robert Maynard Hutchins was secretary of Yale at 24, dean of its law school at 29, president of Chicago at 30. Like Mr. Harper, Mr. Hutchins (even Ph.D.s are called Mr. at Chicago) is a prodigious money-raiser ($65,000,000 in twelve years) and innovator. Inheriting a university that stood second only to Harvard in scholarship, Hutchins has made Chicago preeminent in another quality-intellectual zizz...