Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tower Theater in downtown Atlanta, an overflow crowd spilled into the orchestra pit, backed up into the aisles; outside, latecomers shoved at the doors. The show had barely got underway when the night was rent by keening sirens, and fire engines roared to the theater entrance...
Married. Mattiwilda Dobbs, 27 coloratura soprano of Atlanta, Ga., who last month became the first Negro ever to win a principal role at La Scala opera house (TIME, March 16); and Luis Rodriguez Garcia de la Piedra, 30, Spanish journalist; in Genoa, Italy...
...Tribune gave its readers only a small test sample of the changes Farrar prescribed, but the Call-Bulletin put on its new dress all at once, just as the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Portland Oregon Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Houston Post and scores of others had done after Typographer Farrar redesigned them. Farrar, whose clients often call him "the Deacon" because of his evangelical zeal for tidy typography (i.e., his own), bases all his prizewinning designs on a simple theory: "There are more eyes among readers than intellects...
Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, now serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy in Atlanta's federal penitentiary, entered the prison hospital to have his infected gall bladder removed...
...Angeles, health food stores were seeing lots of new customers. Some merely bought sugarless candy; others asked the storekeeper to work out a complete diet for them. A San Francisco brewery got in the swim by advertising: "Regal Pale Is the Low-Calorie Beer." In Atlanta, the Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill was punishing himself at breakfast and lunch with a trick powder, mixed with fruit juice, to kill appetite. Said McGill, 25 Ibs. lighter in 14 weeks: "I just decided to stop being silly about it and lose some of that ugly weight." His regimen still allowed...