Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ARMSTRONG Guthrie, Texas...
...leave the apartment where he was held in Masontown. "I worked harder that night than I had in years," says Father Flohr. "You have to talk and talk and talk until your head falls off." As Wes himself recounted the experience last week to TIME'S Lois Armstrong, "they began pulling out Scripture, and asking me if I had answers to this passage or that. I ranted, raved and thrashed around. I was afraid they were going to drug me or put me in a mental hospital. I wanted to escape because a fear had been planted...
Sounder is a variation of my grandfather's story: in many ways it is a variation of every black man's story. Adapted by black playwright Lonne Elder III (Cerrmonies in Dark Old Men), from William Armstrong's powerful allegory of black life in America. Director Martin Ritt carefully examines the economic, cultural, and judicial elements of white American society that impede the black man's search for freedom...
Died. Wilbur De Paris, 72, Dixie land trombonist who played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton during the '20s, '30s and '40s, and then with his own band be came a durable jazz figure on New York City's 52nd Street during the '50s; in Manhattan...
...participants in the tour have worked together for a long time trying to end the war, DeWitt said. Also in the delegation are Bishop James Armstrong of the United Methodist Church who headed the clergy's campaign for Senator George McGovern, Rabbi Leonard Beerman of Los Angeles, Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian theologian at Stanford, and Sister Mary Luke Tobin of the Sisters of Loretto...