Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida States' Rights, chartered in August, claims a membership of 4,000. Said its state secretary, Ruth V. Armstrong: "I can't have my son or daughter dancing on a dance floor or swimming in a pool with somebody as black as the ace of spades and with a skull three inches thick...
Died. George W. Armstrong, 88, multimillionaire Southern oilman who offered in 1949 to give Mississippi's struggling little Jefferson Military College $50 million in oil lands if it would teach white supremacy, admit only white Christians, got turned down by the school, which then had no trouble raising an unrestricted $100,000 from less prejudiced philanthropists; in Natchez, Miss...
Most active in the field is the U.S. Air Force, which made great strides under its longtime surgeon general, Major General Harry George Armstrong (since July, surgeon of U.S. Air Forces in Europe). Just as busy on a smaller scale is the Navy, with most of its air-medical research directed the by top U.S. Captain Ashton Graybiel, one of the top U.S. heart experts. Scores of university laboratories are helping the armed forces. Eager researchers are using themselves as guinea pigs for experiments in low-pressure chambers, on high-speed centrifuges and rocket-powered sleds. They are toiling...
...does so, he may have strange delusions. Classic example: a reconnaissance pilot in the western Pacific in World War II refused to bother with oxygen and thought he was taking magnificently daring pictures of enemy positions. It turned out that instead he had urinated into his camera. Says General Armstrong, soberly: "A man is not himself when he is suffering from oxygen lack, even when he believes...
...Real Money. U.S. jazzmen, and particularly Negro jazzmen, continue to find steady success in Paris cellars and bars. The famed Hot Club of Paris has its headquarters in a Pigalle courtyard with four walkways named Rue Armstrong, Rue Ellington, Rue Gillespie and, of course, Rue Bechet. Sidney, who set out on jazz street at ten playing the clarinet in some of the gayer New Orleans brothels, came to be regarded as one of the best jazzmen in the U.S., but never managed to make a steady living at it. Once he ran a pants-pressing establishment in Harlem and only...