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White-haired Henry Thacker Burleigh put on a white tie and tails and stood affably in St. George's parish house while admirers thronged around in celebration of his 50th anniversary. A delegation of Negroes and whites had come all the way from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still...
...Mildenberger easily breezed through the company squash tournament, winning in the finals from Chief Specialist Scott. The team of Deloto and Dillard won the handball title from Thacker and Schwerin in a hard-fought match...
There were Edward Czeklauski of Brooklyn, George Pucilowski of Detroit, Theodore Hakenstad of Bremerton, Wash. There were Frank Rebbillo of Providence, Zane Gemmill of St. Clair, Pa., Frank Christensen of Racine, Wis., Abraham Dreiscus of Kansas City. There were the older, but not better, American names like Ray and Thacker, Walsh and Eaton and Tyler. The war was closer. And it was getting Americanized...
...show, crowning glory in a dog's life; for the second year in a row; outshining 2,547 rivals; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. With rosettes aplenty, five-year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy, who placed second and third respectively; on the blue ice of blue-blooded Philadelphia's Skating Club...
...warden, loomed up & down its aisles with the collection plate, left it a $500,000 endowment in his will. Another is social service work, eloquently represented in such liberals as Dr. Karl Reiland and its present pastor, Elmore McNeill McKee. Another is its 72-year-old barytone soloist, Harry Thacker Burleigh, a Negro...