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With 80 invitations to members of the Junior Class to serve as Commencement ushers in the mail, the appointment of Frederick Holdsworth '40, as head usher, was announced yesterday by the Class Day Committee...
Harvey C. Taylor, chairman, also announced the following appointments on his committee: Thomas L. Higginson, financial chairman; George N. Hurd, Jr. head usher; Frank H. McKechnie, lighting supervisor; William B. Parsons, Jr., Joseph M. Miller, Charles B. Ayres, and Thomas 41, Carroll, ticket sales; William C. Murphy, decorations; Don S. Frienkin, publicity chairman; John P. Bunker, advertising chairman; and Arthur H. Northrop, arranger at the Union...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...
Irving Chase '39 heads the Dance Committee, assisted by S. Roger Sheppard '41, Llwellyn Vorley '41, L. John Profit Sp., and Frank F. White '89, Gardner Stratton '39 has been appointed Head Usher. The committee has announced that the dance will be limited to 200 couples at $4.50 each, while no more than 75 stage at $2.25 per head will be admitted...
Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company...