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...significance of these steps was not the formal condemnation of segregation-something that plenty of Baptist laymen and ministers have done for years-but the recognition by a new generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...
Even in Mississippi. Similarly, Negroes were admitted to previously all-white hotels and eating places in Savannah, Thomasville and Warner Robins, Ga. In Texas, Dallas' Piccadilly Cafeteria, a motel and lunch counter in Longview, restaurants in Palestine, and Austin, and a Beaumont drive-in were integrated. Thirty-three Memphis restaurants, including one of the city's largest downtown cafeterias, opened their doors to Negroes. Kemmons Wilson, chairman of the Memphis-based Holiday Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction...
...Quite a few companies have asked colleges and Negro organizations to help them find Negro management trainees. In some cases this is a calculated gesture, a sort of bend-over-backward bow that has been forced by social and political pressures. Says New York University Associate Placement Director Andre Beaumont...
...arranged in a semicircular amphitheatre, with the arena and all but the last six rows below ground level. The acoustics are perfect and the sight-lines optimal. The $530,000 building is announced as a temporary structure pending the completion, in a year or two, of the uptown Vivian Beaumont Theatre. It would be a shame if such a fine theatre were not to become a permanently available site for dramatic productions...
...Binky Beaumont gave Burton a contract when he was demobbed in 1947, and within a year he was an established actor. "I would like to be recognized as a great actor on the stage," he was saying before long. "The chances of that coming off are extremely remote, but it's a chance I'll take, which is why I don't want to sign film contracts. It impedes, it gets...