Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born. When prayer ("Dear Lord, if you will let my dear baby Chuckie live") saved his son from a serious illness, Billington, then an Akron rubber worker, promised to preach. True to his word, he began "Bible searching'' after work, found a job as an usher-bouncer in a revival temple. By 1932 he was broadcasting sermons over "Radio Station WJW-Watch Jesus Win." Two years later he was ordained...
What Lies Ahead. Washington hailed the agreement as noninflationary, and passed word that it might well usher in a new era in labor relations. That is just what many businessmen-and union chiefs-are afraid of. Arthur Goldberg is not a man to let the headlines go by, and the steel negotiators are miffed because he hogged the limelight and made it appear as if the Kennedy Administration alone was responsible for bringing statesmanship to steel. Growled the American Metal Market: "Free collective bargaining, which has been on the way out the window, may have gone...
...burned up. The Theatre Guild, which had produced Battle, shot off an unprecedented letter of apology to its subscribers and closed the play. In the next four years, Williams collected the job labels that are pasted on the luggage of itinerant U.S. writers. He worked as a restaurant cashier, usher in Manhattan's Strand Theater, Teletype operator, apartment-house elevator operator, and as a poetry-reciting waiter in Greenwich Village's Beggar Bar-where he wore a black eye patch with a libidinous white eye painted on it; he had undergone the first of four eye operations. Moving...
...Francisco Symphony, which started 50 years ago as a part-time job for bawdyhouse musicians, has a special appeal for Composer Harris: he got his first real acquaintance with symphonic music while working as an usher for the orchestra, soon decided to become a composer. Now, several hundred compositions later, Harris is a guest lecturer at U.C.L.A., but he is a resident of Puerto Rico, where he teaches at the Inter-American University and composes more furiously than ever. He was not even slowed down by a bad auto accident several years ago in which his right knee was smashed...
Mark H. Mullin '62, of Dunster House and Mt. Carrol, III., was elected First Class Marshal yesterday by the members of the senior clas. Captain of the varsity cross country team and the varsity track team, Mullin was a Junior Usher last year...