Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama 50, Mississippi State...
...urged the jurors to decide the case "just like you would if a Negro was charged with raping a white woman . . . [and] show the Negro that he can get justice in court." The jurors did. They found 30-year-old John C. Howard guilty and fixed his penalty (an Alabama jury's prerogative) at 45 years in prison. Next day Howard's cousin, 21-year-old Jack Oliver, also charged with rape of a Negro woman, pleaded guilty, got the same stiff sentence. (Almost all Negroes convicted of raping Alabama white women have been sentenced to death...
...players, Emil Drvaric. place-kicking export, and Nick Rodis, guard, will play in the Blue-Gray game at Birmingham, Alabama. The conches of the North at this game are "ox" Da Grossa, of Temple, Ray Morrison, also of Temple, and Ray Eliot of Illinois. Da Grossa is head coach, and will probably...
Although Drvaric and Rodis face a full week of double practice sessions after they hit Alabama, Gannon must play in the BC varsity basketball game on December 21. Right after the Shrine game, Chip must leave for Kansas City to catch the first of four basketball games there. Chip says, "We were going to leave from New York on December 26 anyway, so it won't make much difference...
Three hours later they came away feeling as if they had been through a small Alabama "nawther." It had been a tough struggle even to get their questions asked. With scarcely a break in her marathon monologue, Tallulah had danced the Charleston for them, played piano, told jokes, done imitations and a few ballet turns, tossed off some mint juleps, fed them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl...