Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YELLER-HEADED SUMMER, by Francis Irby Gwaltney (207 pp.; Rinehart; $3), proves once again that a passel of li'l ole mental defectives can be pretty funny if they speak with a Southern drawl. Dim-witted Jack Winters, hero of this first novel, is constable of Walnut Creek, Ark., and a Bedder-which means that his folks were pore white trash who scratched out a living in a dry river bed. But Jack is proud of his gun and his badge; he loves to crank up the siren on the state police car, and his noblest ambition used...
Arkansas, it seemed, could also tell time. In Fayetteville (pop. 17,000), five pupils took their places in the high school as if they had been going there for years. And last week Charleston, Ark. (pop. 900) quietly let it be known that eleven Negroes had been peacefully attending the white school since opening day, Aug. 23. But though such peace and quiet were not exactly the exception in the South, they were far from being the rule. Among developments reported last week...
...figures as to the range of support U.S. citizens give to their schools. Among the largest cities (100,000 or more), expenditures per pupil ran from $133 in Memphis to $395 in Newark. Among the smallest cities (under 10,000), Bronxville, N.Y. took the prize with $675, while Batesville, Ark. trailed with...
Arkansas has said it will comply with the Supreme Court decision, but school districts are not compelled to act this semester, and almost none have. One that did was Fayetteville, Ark., which will integrate twelve Negro high-school students as an economy move. Fayetteville had been bearing the cost of boarding the dozen students 50 miles away at Fort Smith, site of the nearest Negro high school...
...from "Bobo" Rockefeller (TIME, Aug. 16), resilient Oil Heir Winthrop Rockefeller seemed to have a marrying eye firmly fixed on a member of one of the most-divorced families in the nation. Visiting with her two children at Winrock Farm, Rockefeller's sprawling stockbreeding barony near Little Rock, Ark., was Jeanette Edris, 36, a tall, cool ex-debutante from Seattle, previously married to a pro football star, a lawyer and a broker. Jeanette's father is a logger's son named Bill Edris, 61, a four-times-married, hardfisted, carrot-topped entrepreneur who has amassed an estimated...