Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor waded Queegishly into a question about how he liked Dixie, snapped a curt "It stinks." After the aghast newsman commented that the reply would make interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time the show had rolled on to Atlanta, Actor Douglas was trying to get his foot out of his mouth, succeeded only in jamming it in farther. It was not the entire South that stank-just Greensboro. Then, after making it clear that his pet peeve is "to be misquoted by newspaper people," Douglas hopefully murmured that...
...Atlanta's Scripto, Inc. last week put a new pencil on the market that looks like a lead pencil but writes like a ball-point pen. The writing agent is a capsule of liquid graphite which can be erased, although not as quickly or cleanly as lead. Price: 49?; refill capsules...
...child], then they have a positive duty to use the most effective means possible to effectuate this intent, and at the same time to continue that relationship which is the sacrament of unity between the spouses . . ." ¶ A $400,000 Protestant Radio and TV Center was formally dedicated at Atlanta, Ga. to "its task of carrying the word of Christianity to the world." Owned jointly by the Methodist, Presbyterian (Northern and Southern), United Lutheran and Episcopal Churches, and by Emory University, Agnes Scott College and Columbia Theological Seminary, the center will send religious radio programs to several hundred stations...
...still one inner sanctum where Negro newsmen have never been admitted as members: the 911-member National Press Club, to which virtually all capital correspondents (and hundreds of pressagents and lobbyists) belong.* Three weeks ago Louis Lautier, 56. Washington correspondent for the National Negro Press Association and the Atlanta Daily World, decided to put the club's color bar to its first formal test. Lautier, the first Negro reporter on a daily newspaper to be admitted to the congressional press galleries (TIME. March 31, 1947), applied for club membership. The club, he reasoned, is not only a social institution...
From San Juan Hill. In Atlanta, Harry L. Olive, 82, and Mrs. Jennie Goodby, 82, divorced during the Spanish-American War, remarried...