Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lake City wrote: "It isn't easy to choose . . . I've been toying with the idea of asking for $100 worth of Oldsmobiles, or some of I. W. Harper's liquid assets; there are so many products and services in TIME'S advertising pages." In Atlanta, Jack F. Glenn waited for his wife to come back to town...
...District Court in Atlanta ruled that City Censor Christine Gilliam overstepped her authority when she banned The Blackboard Jungle apparently because the film depicted white and Negro students attending the same school...
...selling that at discounts in Cleveland, Dallas and Miami. As a result, the National Automobile Dealers Association does not believe that dealers can even maintain the low (3%) profit margin on sales that they averaged for the first quarter. Said H. W. Robin son, general manager of Atlanta's Harry Sommers Inc. (Chrysler): "I haven't seen any profits for so long that I wouldn't know what they look like. All we are doing is working for the factory...
Married. Clara King Stribling, 48, widow of W. L. ("Young") Stribling, Georgia's onetime perennial heavyweight boxing title contender who died following a motorcycle crash in 1933; and the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, 48, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; she for the second time, he for the first; in Marietta...
Died. Robert Elliot Burns, 63, author of I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang; after long illness; in East Orange, N.J. Burns robbed an Atlanta grocery of $5.85 in 1921, was sentenced to six-to-ten years on the chain gang, escaped and fled to Chicago, where he married and became the $20,000-a-year editor of the Greater Chicago Magazine. Recaptured in 1929, he served another year, escaped again and wrote his colorful account of abuses in the prison camps. His civil rights were restored by the state parole board in Atlanta...