Word: mcrae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Ralph F. Lewis of Time, Inc., and roderick McRae, Vice-President of Bank of New York and fifth Avenue Bank; Greensbore, North Carolina, Charles F. Myers, Jr., Vice-President of Burlington Mills Corp.; San Francisco, California, John F. Marshall, Consultant; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, David N. Huseman, Presidetn of Houdry Process Corp., and Donald T. Brophy of Rohm and Haas...
Destiny's Boy. Squatly handsome Gordon McRae, 26, believes that his career as a crooner was predestined: "I'm a very religious guy, you know. I believe that everyone has his own niche. . . ." From Deerfield Academy, destiny took Gordon to NBC as a $16-a-week pageboy. But he did not get very far, so the story goes, until CBS Board Chairman William Paley heard him sing...
...time, turkey-necked, 62-year-old Gene Talmadge was taken with a stomach hemorrhage and went to the hospital. The doctors made him eat poached eggs and he began to recover. Then he rebelled against the doctors. During the Thanksgiving holidays he drove 200 miles to his farm at McRae, Ga. to get some fresh air, healthful exercise and belly filling vittles. He ate fried chicken, ham and grits with red gravy and plenty of hot biscuits. Then he went out with a dog and gun and hunted birds. He drove back to Atlanta and collapsed again...
...people of Georgia be urged to apply the principles of Jesus in a serious effort to allay the growing race tensions so spotlighted by the lynchings in Georgia and the recent Columbians Inc. disturbances in Atlanta." Up jumped ex-Navy Chaplain Joseph A. Rabun, 39, new pastor of the McRae Baptist Church, where rabble-rousing, Governor-elect Gene Talmadge is the leading lay member. Shouted Pastor Rabun: "That is not strong enough! We need to condemn with all our power race hatred." Visit with Gene. Goaded by Rabun, who had served in the war with the Marines, the Georgia Baptists...
Unmilitary goings-on at Selfridge Field came to a boil with the McRae shooting May 5. The War Department has prepared charges against some of Col. Colman's associates, but is not likely to make them public before the end of his trial, which is expected to take about three weeks...