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Mark Gibson; Adams; PBH, Harvard Outing Club Treasurer, 1952; Freshman Register Editorial Board; House Committee, Chairman and Secretary; Crimson Key; Junior Usher, '51 Class Week...
Edmond J. Gong; Kirkland; Freshman Smoker Committee Chairman; Freshman Union Committee; Class Committee '52; Crimson Key; Junior Usher...
...scarred, crippled man wearing not one but two hearing aids hobbled painfully to the rostrum with the help of a pair of canes. A tail-coated usher darted forward to help hoist him to the speaker's platform. There he grasped a table for support and then gulped a handful of pills. A hush fell over France's Chamber of Deputies as Georges Heuillard, deputy from the Seine-Inférieure, began to speak. His misshapen body and his scarred, waxen face were his honorable credentials...
From Marley's ghost to Crachit's goose, the film is full of the kind of Christmas spirit that seems to be lost in today's world of Scrooges. One leaves the theatre singing carols, and wishing the usher a "good evening...
...though the place officially belongs to him. Whenever the King's Messenger arrives at the House, frockcoated and gaitered, to deliver some official piece of news, the oak door is slammed in his face, and the cry "Black Rod! Black Rod!" goes bawling down the lobbies. The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod thereupon knocks thrice upon the door with his wand of office, and is then admitted, bowing to the Speaker and members on both sides as he approaches the Bar. M.P.s dearly love to show off the worn spots on the door where Black Rod has rapped...