Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt, the man hired to clean up the political mess that disgraced Chicago schools under the late Mayor Ed Kelly. Willis clinched Hunt's reforms and followed with his own equally decisive ones...
...Senior Class Committee has announced the appointment of this year's Junior Ushers, who will be privileged to attend all of the Commencement Week functions and are supposed to Usher at the Commencement Ceremony. These named...
...Herm has made his mark in Hollywood very quickly. Cohen's first venture into the motion picture world came at the age of 12 when he worked as an usher in Detroit. By the time he was 16, he was house manager of Detroit's Dexter Theatre. After two and a half years in the Army, he returned to Detroit as manager of the Fox Theatre, the country's third largest movie house. Herm left Detroit for Hollywood...
Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...
...real member of party inner circles, though he had helped Kennedy out during the primary campaigns, and had no demonstrable capacity to be an effective U.S. Senator. His principal qualification seemed to be that he was once Kennedy's Harvard roommate, served as an usher at Kennedy's wedding (as Kennedy served at Smith's), and is a darned good tuna fisherman who once got his name in Ripley for a record catch. He is the scion of an oldtime Gloucester fishing family and, like Kennedy, was a naval officer in the Pacific in World...