Word: rectorate
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...graduation he was torn between music and law. He plunged into both. When a famed voice teacher, Percy Rector Stephens, encouraged him to continue his voice training in New York, he saw an even more interesting opportunity. The Professor's secretary, a gifted mezzo-soprano, Frances Eileen Hutt, of Sapulpa, Okla., was also going to New York...
Speaking with an authority on marriage derived from 20 years as rector of Manhattan's famed Little Church Around the Corner, Dr. J. (for Jackson) H. (for Harvelle) Randolph Ray deplores hasty wartime weddings. He thinks they are usually the result of "glamor and excitement rather than genuine affection," do not give the couple a chance to adjust to each other, are especially unfortunate if immediate offspring result. But Rector Ray knows that warriors and their girls will continue to get married no matter what he thinks, so offers the following seven rules for war brides...
...year-old Army Air Forces lieutenant groom, Courtlandt Nicoll, Manhattan socialite whose family attends the Little Church. Among the bride's wedding presents was her father's latest book, dedicated to her: Marriage Is a Serious Business (Whittlesey House; $2). It is full of the rector's warmly human advice to marrying couples, and of anecdotes about weddings at the Little Church...
...Rector Ray, 57, is a friendly Mississippi-born ex-newspaperman who gave up golf for gardening because "it is better for my waistline." He spends most of his time interviewing and advising prospective brides & grooms. Because he will not marry divorced persons, elopers, or girls under 21 who lack parental consent, he turns away some 500 couples a year. Yet in his 20-year rectorate, he has approved 50,000 weddings, performed some 25,000 of them himself...
...Persuading U.S. Steel's legendary board chairman, the late Elbert H. Gary, to pay a cool $5,000,000 for the Empire Building at Broadway and Rector Street where Big Steel had made its offices for years. Day sold Judge Gary on staying where he was by simply letting him reminisce about the steel history that had been made in the old building...