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Jaime's family has scrimped and saved to keep him in catgut. His father padded out an annual $600 allowance, given Jaime by the Bolivian government, with jobs as a theater usher, truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible by the sale of the family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing...
Died. Howell G. Crim, 60, longtime (1930-57) usher at the White House who served under four Presidents, became chief usher in 1938; of a lung ailment; in Washington...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra Royal Society of Ushers recently announced its choices for the worst performances of the BSO's 78th season, which ended last week. The BSORSU is composed of the 16 Harvard undergraduates who usher the Friday-Saturday concert series...
...Room 5106 ("the largest conference room") in Foggy Bottom. Bereft of the vintage attention of exquisitely correct French huissiers, the men of diplomacy get a meat-and-potatoes feeling when they are shown around Washington by polite young men in business suits wearing blue lapel ribbons imprinted USHER...
Cambridge is, for all its brick sidewalks and miserable weather, an unfortunately American town. An outdoor cafe could dull the red-brick austerity and usher in spring with langorous and graceful living...