Word: rector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restaurateur George Rector, 61, whose fillet of sole a la Marguery was worshiped by Manhattan gourmets at the turn of the century, acted as a judge in a Boy Scout cooking contest, registered exquisite anticipation when handed the winning dish-a plate of fried flounder...
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...General Conventions (next one: next October). Chairman of the female commission is the Auxiliary's Executive Board Chairman Mrs. Robert G. Happ of South Bend, Ind. Some other members: Mrs. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch of Manhattan's Greenwich House (settlement); Mrs. Charles Leslie Glenn, wife of the popular rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Mrs. Norman B. Livermore, San Francisco socialite and clubwoman...
Like all self-respecting clubs, The Lambs has its traditions. No woman may ever brighten its doors. No dramatic critic (as with The Players) may ever become a member. Every rector of Manhattan's Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner") is made an honorary member of the club, as the result of an oft-told anecdote: When Joe Jefferson sought to bury an old Lambs actor, he was turned down by the snooty rector of a Fifth Avenue church, who loftily suggested that he "try the little church around the corner." Ever since, the "little church...
Princeton's Trinity is supposed to collaborate with the Procter Foundation, which maintains an Episcopal chaplain for the university. (The chaplaincy is to be vacated in June by the Rev. John Crocker, new rector of Groton School.) Of late years, Trinity's influence on both town & gown has waned. Thus the invitation which the Trinity vestry sent to Arthur Kinsolving this winter was a challenge. That he accepted it, putting aside the easy fame and popularity of Boston for the smaller prospects and pay of Princeton, may have been a surprise to those who take for granted...