Word: needham
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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General Daniel Needham, Director of the Massachusetts Red Cross Blood Program, announced yesterday that the state would double its daily quota of 600 pints. At least 230 pints, he stated, must be shipped daily to the west coast for Korean causalities, and the remainder will go to veterans' hospitals...
...back). Last year he began holding both Low Church and High Church services on Sunday and banned the reading of the Ten Commandments because of the "fantastic" morality of their "jealous God" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1949). Last week, in his 15th Century Anglican church in the village of Needham Market, Vicar Thomas was at it again. Because he found most hymn tunes "funereal, dull and too difficult to sing," he had dressed up the old Anglican hymn, Rest of the Weary, with the syncopated melody of a British bandleader's current theme song, Here's to the Next...
...natives of Needham Market, however, Vicar Thomas has learned to avoid making his jungle rhythms too up-to-date. "I must usually stay ten to 15 years behind popular trends in music," he explained last week. "It's still too early to even think of using Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'. That's a fine melody, though, and I do intend to use it someday...
Died. Henry Ingraham Harriman,* 77, Brooklyn-born Boston utility magnate (New England Power), onetime (1932-35) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; in Needham, Mass...