Word: warded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gubernatorial race. The teetotaling Mormon, who recently resigned as American Motors boss, will reserve Sundays for "church and family." Democrats do not expect their incumbent Governor, John Swainson, to be quite that saintly, have scheduled a full list of Sunday appearances at church socials, firemen's outings and ward picnics...
Although his father was a onetime Chicago alderman. Illinois Democrat Otto Kerner, 53, never really developed much stomach for rough-and-tumble politics. "I've never been a ward leader or a county leader, and I'm not interested." he says. Elected Governor in 1960 on his record as a Cook County judge. Kerner began putting off state problems by appointing committees to study them. This summer his procrastination has come home to plague him: Illinois is in the worst fiscal mess since the Depression...
Wrapped in blankets to ward off the night chill, some of the throng dozed on field cots or in collapsible chairs. Bookmakers' odds on the outcome fluctuated. Early betting predicted a decision of guilty, but by the time the judges filed into the courtroom last week, the odds had inched to even money that Defendant Vera Brühne would be acquitted in West Germany's most spectacular murder case since glamorous Rosemarie Nitribitt, the rich man's call girl, was strangled with one of her own stockings...
Baptist Tambourines. The Ward Singers were drawing audiences of 20,000 nearly 20 years ago, and many of today's good gospelers were trained under Clara Ward...
...there was no general market for genuine gospel until Mahalia Jackson made her first European tour in 1952. Now there are about 20 well-known professional groups, like the Stars of Faith, singing for pay around the country and getting paid well. Such gospelers as Clara Ward and her Ward Singers, who tour in a custom-built lavender Chrysler, are taking the Word as far afield as nightclubs and the borscht circuit. Even the big record companies have begun to realize that gospel sells-chiefly, as one A. & R. man points out, because "gospel singing has the greatest concentration...