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Finis E. Davis, Lions International leader
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Finis E. Davis, a former president of Lions International who
spent decades working to improve the educationand the lives of the
blind, died Friday. He was 86.
Davis was president of the Downtown Louisville Lions Club in 1951.
He held several offices...
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Finis E. Davis, Lions International leader
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Finis E. Davis, a former president of Lions International who spent decades working to improve the educationand the lives of the blind, died Friday. He was 86. Davis was president of the Downtown Louisville Lions Club in 1951. He held several offices in Lions International, and in 1960 became
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DEATHS ELSEWHERE
The Washington Post
; Henry Tanner Foreign Correspondent Henry Tanner, 79, a longtime foreign correspondent for the New York Times who covered wars, upheavals and international crises, died May 15 at a hospital near the Norman town of Harfleur, after a heart attack. During his 25 years at the Times, the Swiss-born Mr.
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Homes & Land Magazine Powers Growth of Tallahassee, Fla., Printer. (Originated from Tallahassee Democrat, Fla.)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; Jan. 5--Though it is now the state's fourth largest printer, and the nation's 189th largest, the Printing House had a humble beginning. Former St. Petersburg Printing Co. employee Del Archibald launched the company out of a building that, by printers' standards was almost microscopic - 2,400 square
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The Independent Archive: 6 April 1989 - Closing chapter in a 500- year print run Nicolas Barker deplores the passing of the printing house which was int egral to the history of the Oxford University Press
The Independent - London
; NEXT MONTH the University Printing House, the oldest part of the Oxford University Press, will cease to exist, apart from a small unit for domestic printing. OUP now stands for a great publishing business, but printing has been part of the university since the first printer came to Oxford (if not
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Tibetan treasures kept alive in Derge
China Daily
; GONCHEN, Sichuan: The 270-year-old Derge Scripture Printing House, an enigmatic treasure trove of Tibetan culture at the northwestern tip of Sichuan Province, didn't really meet my expectations. I had imagined pushing open the creaking thick wooden doors of a lone and dilapidated Tibetan courtyard,
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The low-cost, high-return production system. (Be Practices).(Toyota Production System)(Brief Article)
Industry Week
; Talk about gathering low-hanging fruit. With a negligible investment and without laying off any employees the American Printing House for the Blind Inc. in Louisville, Ky., turned a money-losing manufacturing venture into a money-making one, climbing steadily each year from 1996's $3.25 million
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 "Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)")
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Commemorating 75 years of literacy for the blind: LEXINGTON VOLUNTEERS HELP RE-RECORD FIRST TALKING BOOK IN VINTAGE STUDIO.
Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, KY)
; ... Readers Theatre at UK. Ken Kurtz, former news director at WKYT-TV, said in an interview ... people in Lexington to volunteer to read news, finding the opportunity to help those ... Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup ...
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Tibetan printing house a hotbed of ethnic culture
China Daily
; CHENGDU: Li Xiaodong visited a sutra printing house in Sichuan Province, Southwest China, and came away with an unexpected and special memento. Li spent just 2 yuan (24 US cents) on five sets of sutra books at the printing house in Dege County, said to be the largest of its kind in areas inhabited
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 "Birmingham Evening Mail (England)")
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Wife with the Lions.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
; IT WAS ladies only as this year's Lions Clubs International Convention got off to its official start. Birmingham's Lord Mayor, Coun Sue Anderson, hosted the first civic reception of the convention for the wives of the Lions International board. The board is made up of 46 members from some 20
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Outstanding achievement.
Printing News
; Gene Hoffmann, past president of the North Jersey Club of Printing House Craftsmen (NJCPHC) and Adirondack Club of Printing House Craftsmen (ACPHC), recently was granted Life Membership in the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, by virtue of outstanding craftsmanship and
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