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...University of Omaha's wide-ranging services even include the schooling of church ushers. This year 40 adult students took the Omaha ushering course, learning their art from practical experts. At their commencement last week, the principal speaker was earnest, efficient A. & P. Sales Manager J. S. Handy. Every Sunday as head usher at Des Moines' Westminster Presbyterian Church, he "competes with the Devil" of congregational boredom...
...question about this future economy concerned the contribution still to be made by the men who were fighting to make any plans possible. Until this was known, the prospects opened up by 1944 would not be plumbed. The great hope was that a young man's war would usher in a young man's peace...
...fiendish cruelties" inflicted on him by Sergeant Thomas Mulvehill, found the situation still normal. Now feature editor of the Army's magazine Yank in Manhattan, Hargrove got a telephone call from Lieut. Mulvehill, now of the A.A.F. Barked , Mulvehill: "I'm getting married tonight and I need an usher in a hurry and you're it." Hargrove obeyed. Mulvehill let him kiss the bride...
Indianapolis, whose aircraft plants have begun to lay off workers, reported that a back-to-school trend had set in. Reason: the laid-off youngsters preferred school to jobs at lower pay. Said Marion Miller, 17, quitting his job as a movie usher: "Most of my friends are returning to school and I want to go back...
...sects) in Grandview Heights, a Columbus suburb. They attend services faithfully, have refused a regular pew, sometimes perch on chairs in the adjoining gymnasium when the church auditorium is crowded. The Governor has been a member of the Board of Deacons and the Board of Trustees, and an usher. Mrs. Bricker is active in the Women's Guild, has also been chairman of the Weekday School of Religion...