1. To bend; to inflect; as, to bow vines. 2. To bend the body in token of respect or civility; as, to bow the head. 3. To bend or incline towards, in condescension. Bow down thine ear to the poor. Eccles. 4. To depress; to crush; to subdue.
December 03, 1999|ELAINE WOO | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Gene Rayburn, the actor and veteran quiz show host best known for emceeing television's The Match Game, has died. He was 81. Rayburn died Monday at his home near Gloucester, Mass., of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Lynne Rayburn.
In 1937 Rayburn became majority leader and held the post for the next three years. Several of these Texas politicians became involved in the Suite 8F Group, a collection of right-wing businessmen. The name comes from the room in the Lamar Hotel in Houston where they held their meetings.