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...said her mother, and that was a chaste peck for a publicity still with "that actor"(Hugh O'Brian, TV's Wyatt Earp), those who had tentatively picked blondes tracked back to discover where things had gone wrong. A precrowning favorite was Miss U.S.A., Eurlyne Howell of Bossier City, La. Five feet six inches tall in her stocking feet, and even more statuesque in high heels, she was tailored to the Kelly pattern. Her shoulders were slim, her hair simply arranged, her 36-23½-35½ measurements politely de-emphasized. The expression on her composed, heart-shaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Fire v. Ice | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...some very juicy meat for the carnivorous Commies in your report on Louisiana's Bossier Parish school board action. We are still laughing heartily at the Communist Party's difficulties in their attempt to debunk Stalin; however, it becomes a tragedy when American public schools resort to similar "educational" tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Having a month ago passed a resolution endorsing segregation in the public schools, the school board of Louisiana's Bossier Parish (just across the Red River from Shreveport) took another step toward the preservation of its most cherished tradition. Last week it banned from all nine high-school libraries TIME, LIFE and Look, accused the magazines of "waging a systematic campaign to prejudice and inflame the American people against the South by presenting in their columns biased and distorted views on the institution of segregation of races in our schools." To make doubly sure that no pupil would ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Incorruptibles | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...chocolate cotton pickers from Riverside Plantation had come down to Vanceville to play the also-dark potato diggers of Sunny Side for the colored baseball championship of Bossier Parish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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