Word: usher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chairman, Dunster House Committee; Varsity Golf; Crimson Key; Junior Usher; D.U. Club; Varsity Club; Hasty Pudding...
...show business. He bridges the large gulf between the accountant and the tousled genius. He can figure a budget within 5%, and when he gets it figured, he knows what the money is being spent on. He began learning his business during his boyhood as a movie theater usher in C'eveland, and at 21 he became vice president for advertising and promotion at a nightclub called the Mayfair Casino. The bands who played there were booked in by MCA, which then literally was the Music Corporation of America, run by Jules Stein, who is now the chairman...
...ward that end, and there are other facts working against it. Each man by now has attracted a considerable following that desperately wants him to win and doesn't much care how or for what reasons. These voters run the gamut from those who think Johnson will usher in Communism to those who feel just as strongly that Goldwater will provoke war. The other fact is that Johnson is so far ahead in all the polls that very few people feel a serious debate would make any difference any way. Even Goldwater's top aides agree with national...
...longer," said Lockheed Propulsion's President Robert F. Hurt. "One of these days the big boosters will all be solids." General Joseph S. Bleymaier, deputy commander of the Air Force's Space Systems Division, for which the engine was built, seconded the motion: "I believe this will usher in a new era of solid-propellant rocket motors...
Died. Andrew Thomas Frain, 60, founder and chief executive of Andy Frain Crowd Engineering Service, the U.S. House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...