Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday-school teacher and editor of the church's paper, Tall Spire. To everyone else, he was a friendly guy who looked much younger than his years, liked a drink now & then, foisted neither his religion nor his politics (whatever they were) on anybody...
Last week, Tenor Rounseville finally got success, of the kind he wanted. With financial help from his home town of Attleboro, Mass., he had worked hard with a teacher, spent the summer of 1948 at Boris Goldovsky's opera school at Tanglewood. After a student production of the Fountain Scene from Pelléas and Mélisande there, he landed a chance to sing Pélleas in the New York City Opera's closing performance last year. Ace French Repertory Conductor Jean Morel liked Rounseville's big, wide-ranging tenor voice, taught him to sing...
...little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing pole hidden out back somewheres." In high school Chuck speeded up some. Miss Gonza Methel, a teacher, remembers him as "one of the best geometry students I ever...
...chen, 61, dean of the School of Religion at Peiping's Yenching University, is an austere, kindly man who wears his thinning gray hair in a close-cropped stubble, and occasionally smokes a pipe. Known among his students as "T.C.," he is easily the most popular Christian teacher in China...
...only thing holding up immediate work on the production is completion of the musical accompaniment, now being written by Nicholas Van Slyck, a local composer-teacher, and tutee of Serge Koussevitsky. It should be ready in the near future...