Word: ushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Junior usher; varsity hockey, captain; Varsity Club, secretary; Education for Action summer volunteer; D.U. Club; Hasty Pudding...
Pure Escapism. Nicholson, a former usher who graduated to theater owner, first met his partner in 1952 when, on behalf of a client, Attorney Arkoff threatened suit for title infringement. Impressed with each other's skill at infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature...
When successful Ivy League administrators change jobs, they usually move on and up into government or business rather than back down into the world of small liberal arts schools. Last week Harvard College's highly popular Dean John Usher Monro, 54, announced that he will give up his post this summer to become director of freshman studies at Alabama's tiny (1,000 students), all-Negro Miles College (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963). Among his duties will be directing workshops to help prospective students overcome high school deficiencies and revamping the freshman curriculum. "If you do the job right...
...post card from anyone telling him to do so. If he wants to appeal his classification, he can learn the proper procedure for going about it only from a tiny pamphlet supplied by the local board. At one time each state was to appoint a government appeals agent to usher a man through the elaborate appeals process, but the position is unfilled in some places and the government agent makes no pretense of aiding his charge in many others...
...both races were already here when Adam and Eve came onto Earth and began the white race. A man named Usher, Bishop Usher, claimed that Adam and Eve were born only 6,000 years ago. But he was wrong. He made an error of exactly 1400 years, and clergymen would tell you so if they only did their homework...