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...secretary. Returning home with an Indiana-born wife, Coleman progressed from district attorney to Circuit Court judge to Supreme Court commissioner. He became attorney general under Governor Fielding Wright, in 1948 Dixiecrat vice-presidential nominee. In 1955 Coleman defeated Wright and three other candidates to become Mississippi's 51st governor...
...Boing Boing Show (Sun. 5:30 p.m., CBS). Gerald and "The Election," "The 51st Dragon." "Ballet Lesson." Air Power (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). "The Japanese Perimeter," the story of how the U.S. Navy and Air Force crushed enemy carrier forces at Midway...
...building boom will add another skyscraper on fast-reviving Avenue of the Americas (TIME, Dec. 10). Rockefeller Center, Inc. and TIME Inc. last week announced plans for a new 47-story, $70 million TIME and LIFE Building to occupy the entire west side of the avenue between 50th and 51st Streets, opposite Radio City Music Hall. When the 550-ft., air-conditioned building is finished in two years, TIME Inc. will take over 20 lower floors; the remaining 27 floors will be rented by Rockefeller Center, Inc. to other occupants, e.g., American Cyanamid Co.. Shell Oil Co., McCann-Erickson...
...site on the east side of Sixth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, just north of Radio City Music Hall, has been leased from the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which is financing the project and intends to build its own new home office directly across Sixth Avenue. One famed 51st Street institution to be affected is Toots Shor's Restaurant. Shor will hold out at his present base until a new home is built for him in a wing of the skyscraper, move in without missing a meal while the rest of the building is going...
Emerging from an after-midnight coffee session last week at Lindy's, his favorite spot, dapper little (5 ft. 4 in.) New York Labor Columnist Victor Riesel turned off Broadway and down silent 51st Street. By habit he had taken off his glasses. Half a block from Broadway, a young man stepped from the building shadows and threw a bottle of searing, concentrated sulphuric acid into Riesel's face. The columnist clutched at his burn ing eyes, gasping, "My gosh, my gosh!" The young man walked away and was swallowed up by the night and the city...