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...Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, Major Charles Rock Lamoureux, rapped three times on the door of the House of Commons. Admitted, he marched stiffly down the aisle, bowing to the Speaker as he approached the dais to announce that the Senate awaited the presence of the Commons. In the form set centuries ago by the Mother of Parliaments, the M.P.s trooped into the Senate Chamber. There, black-robed Mr. Justice Kerwin, filling the role of the vacationing Governor General, gave royal assent to 300 bills. He thereupon declared the third session of the 20th Parliament of Canada prorogued...
...usher standing in the back of Manhattan's Paramount Theater was skinny and pimply faced and his mouth hung open. "Frank Sinatra was tearing the heart out of a ballad up there on the stage," he recalls, "and there was me, 17 years old and nobody...
Last week, ex-Usher Vic Damone was 19 years old and somebody for Sinatra to reckon with. He was "Da Moan," a suddenly well-known young singer who is being noised about as "Sinatra with quality." His first record (of I Have But One Heart and Ivy), released six weeks ago, had already sold 100,000 copies. Damone fan clubs were fizzing up like hot pop. And last week young Vic had binged into big-time radio as star of the coast-to-coast Saturday Night Serenade (10-10:30 p.m., CBS). "Geez," he said, "altogether I'm making...
...Orsay, the Salon de l'Horloge was being readied for the new conference. It was expected to take only a few days to establish six international commissions, which would survey Europe's needs by Sept. 1. Complained Jules, the bent, silver-haired Quai d'Orsay usher: "Things never used to move so fast around here. Now they ask me to get the Salon de l'Horloge ready for next Saturday, and cannot even tell me how many nations will be there. You understand, we cannot have any empty chairs around the conference table...
...write light verse and opera) after he inherited a small income-and after a female thief he was unsuccessfully defending whipped off one of her boots in court, and aimed it at his head. The law and its devotees became one of his favorite butts-as witness the court usher's song in Trial by Jury...