Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organization, Arlington Books, Inc., has reduced overhead to a minimum, with its only office in Bledsoe's home. All editors and advisers contribute their services without pay except Bledsoe, who left his job with the Beacon Press to work full time on the new enterprise...
With these innovations Arlington Books "will be able to resist the current trend of printing bad books on the theory that this is the only way one can afford publishing good ones," Bledsoe asserted. Darwin, Wallace by Bert J. Loewenberg was the first book released by the company, and two others will be published next week...
Besides Bledsoe, the other founders of Arlington Books include Arthur B. Silverman, associate editor, and William R. Polk '51, research fellow in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, senior editor. Assisting these there is a board of 35 advisers, including six Harvard professors. Five Faculty members serve on a smaller board of editors...
...youngster as he strolled into Theodore Ficklin Elementary School in Washington's bedroom suburb of Alexandria one morning last week. But the only crowd worth a snap was the throng of reporters and cameramen on hand for the third Virginia city's peaceful integration (the other two: Arlington and Norfolk) since Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered orderly acceptance of the inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9). Result: in Alexandria 2,300 white pupils mixed easily with nine Negro newcomers, amiably greeted them aboard school buses...
...Special Care. Five other Almond-locked Norfolk schools peacefully opened their doors to 5,126 whites and twelve Negro pupils. Just as peaceful was the enrollment of four Negro seventh-graders at Stratford Junior High in Arlington, Virginia-side Washington suburb. Wrote the editors of the Stratford school paper Signpost: "We have noticed that most of our classmates and friends don't especially care whether Negroes enter Stratford...