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...owner-operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...Blumberg stayed behind to fight, but local advertisers and employees faded away, until he was virtually alone on the job with only two national ad accounts to help pay costs. To honor his persistent fight, the Radio and Television News Directors last week named him recipient of their annual Paul White Award (named after CBS's first news chief). Aware that his Bogalusa experience has left Blumberg in need of far more than a silver cup, the TV men spontaneously passed the award around, filled it out of their pockets to the tune...
Squash star Vie Niederhoffer tripped Jack Moter 6-4, 6-3 at number three, and Doug Walter, number four, whipped Bob Blumberg...
Inman and Peckham smashed Ormand and Petrick, 6-3, 6-2 in the third doubles match, while Walter and Terry Robinson lost to Blumberg and Chatwick, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 at number...
...doubles matches, Sullivan and Ripley continued Harvard's domination, beating Aasnaes and Heinrich 6-4, 8-6. Niederhoffer and Gary Adelman had more trouble in turning back Charney and Bob Blumberg 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Walter and Martin, along with Kalman Pollen and Clark Woodbury were also on victorious doubles teams...