Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rats on Loan. In Fort Worth his museum was so successful that the city decided to put up a $500,000 model building. In Atlanta he organized a program by which hundreds of Scouts have learned about camping, handicrafts and the dangers of litterbugging and vandalism. In Sacramento. Calif., he not only started a museum but a pet library as well. Today, the museum keeps 237 hamsters, rats, snakes, guinea pigs, squirrels, rabbits and turtles which children can borrow for a week at a time...
...Atlanta, Ga: Dec. 29 at 12:00 noon at the Capital City Club. Joseph A. Wyant, 121 Courtland S.E.; Birmingham, Ala: Dec. 28. Arrangements will be announced later. Jerome A. Cooper, 32 Clarendon Rd.; Buffalo, N.Y.: Dec. 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the University Club of Buffalo. E. W. Stevens, 1426 Liberty bank Bldg...
...question of segregation in Southern public schools, Editor Ralph McGill of the influential Atlanta Constitution (circ. 173,591) has long steered an enlightened but discreet course. But last week, in his daily column, McGill spoke bluntly. "What the various Southern state legislatures are doing," said he, "as they busy themselves with plans to carry on school segregation without legal compulsion, is admitting [that] segregation by law is finished ... It, therefore, seems important that we discuss the problem as rationally as possible...
...political power, and an all-round asset to the Press which the Plain Dealer has never tried to match. Last week the Plain Dealer made its first try. As its new editor, the Plain Dealer named Wright Bryan, 48, tall (6 ft. 5 in.), civic-leading editor of the Atlanta Journal, to replace the Plain Dealer's ailing Paul Bellamy, 68, who has been running the paper for the past 25 years. Bellamy, son of the late Edward (Looking Backward) Bellamy, will remain on the staff as "editor emeritus...
...became managing editor in 1940. During World War II, he went to Europe as a correspondent, was wounded, captured by the Germans, and, after several months, freed by the Russians from a prison camp in Poland. After his return to the Journal, he was named editor in 1945. In Atlanta, Bryan has spent almost as much time at public speaking and creating good will for the paper as he has spent editing it. Says he: "I have many friends in the Cleveland area...