Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opera's bass, Mack Harrell, took their seats in front. In decorous silence-there is no applause in Packer Chapel-Welsh-born Conductor Ifor Jones strode to the podium. After a darting look around, he lifted his hands to begin the great double-chorused Passion According to St. Matthew that Johann Sebastian Bach had composed 220 years ago as the 44-year-old cantor of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig...
...promotion seemed a polite way of telling him that he was through. Like most daily newsmen, he thought a church editor was farther away from the news than any real journalist should ever get. For several days Stewart groused about his lot. Then he got an idea from St. Matthew ("I was a stranger, and ye took me in") for a new kind of church column: he decided to visit a different church every Sunday as an unannounced stranger, and tell Press readers about the reception...
...Michigan legislature's committee on un-American activities is headed by Matthew F. Callahan. When James Zarichny, a student at Michigan State University, refused to tell the committee last spring whether or not he was a member of the Communist Party, he was convicted of contempt of the legislature, and sentenced to one day in jail. The sentence was suspended...
...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...
...next day, St. Laurent attended Low Mass at Washington's St. Matthew's Cathedral, then went to lunch as guest of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. When he left for home (by train, because sleet prevented flying over the St. Lawrence), St. Laurent could safely leave the i-dotting details to be worked out on the embassy level. During the 45-hour visit, Harry Truman, no linguist, had almost learned how to pronounce his guest's name. It came out "San Loran...