Word: alvin
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Died. Major Samuel Woodfill, 58, much-decorated U.S. veteran of World War I* and the regular Army's answer to drafted Alvin York; of a heart attack; in Vevay, Ind. On Oct. 12, 1918, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive, he charged a German strong point, singlehandedly killed 19 enemy machine gunners (shot 17, pickaxed two after his pistol jammed), so earned his Medal of Honor and a ringing tribute from General Pershing: "Here is America's greatest doughboy...
Recipients are Nathan Kravetz, vice principal at the Cathay Center School in Los Angeles; David B. Muirhead, instructor at St. Cloud State Teachers College, Minnesota; Futrelle L. Temple, principal of the Sylacauga, Ala., high school; and Alvin Warren, educationist with the United States Indian Service in Albuquerque...
Before the Lutheran Institute on Race Relations in Valparaiso, Ind., Professor Alvin William Rose of the North Carolina College for Negroes said last week: "The Christian Church is America's most segregated institution. More than 96% of American Negroes and whites worship in [separated] churches. It is tragic that of all our institutions, the Christian Church should be the most unchristian...
...hour filmed show after a talent search that took four years. Heading the cast of characters originally created in blackface by Charles Correll and Freeman Gosden in a quartercentury of radio shows: ex-Vaudevillian Tim Moore as the posturing Kingfish; ex-Teacher Spencer Williams as Andy; Actor (Anna Lucasta) Alvin Childress as Amos, the taxi tycoon. The opening show served up the most rudimentary of plots (the Kingfish gets a draft notice by .mistake), but embellished it with slapstick situations reminiscent of the better two-reel comedies of silent movie days. The dialogue is above average; the sight gags...
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson...