Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once more and looked up an old acquaintance, Virginia Carlson, the pretty widow of a World War II bombardier, and a poetess of modest talents (TIME, May 16). Goodie's prim idea of a big date with Virginia was to take her to the Ontra Cafeteria on Wilshire Boulevard and then to the movies. Eventually, the Knight daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look at me. Up to then, he had just been talking to me." Goodie and Virginia were married last summer. Their honeymoon...
...service from 18 to 15 months." The most striking area of political lassitude is among French students. Twenty years ago, the Latin Quarter was seething with political turmoil. Young Socialists were conspiring at back tables of La Source, royalists were skulking in La Capoulade, making occasional forays into the Boulevard St. Michel to beat up leftists. Today La Capoulade has been redecorated into a neon-lighted sundae palace; La Source is a snack...
...Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) from lampposts and triumphal arches set up along Boulevard Albert I, the spanking concrete highway that bisects the capital city of Leopoldville. In far-off mission churches, encircled by the rain forest that stretches through Belgian territory from the Atlantic to the Mountains of the Moon, choirs of Bantu children rehearsed the Te Deum. African regiments drilled, jazz bands blared in the bush, and on the great brown river...
...after 1 a.m., and all was quiet on Kansas City's Benton Boulevard when a car pulled up short before one of the trim houses. Out stepped the driver and made his way to a sign in the front yard of No. 3714. Watching him from the window of his darkened house was the Rev. Earl T. Sturgess of Southeast Presbyterian Church. During the week he has watched many other motorists stop to examine his sign. It looks like a For Sale sign, like those in front of many houses in the neighborhood, but instead it reads...
...idea hit Benton Boulevard hard, and Not for Sale signs began to sprout throughout the neighborhood. So far, Southeast Presbyterian has sold more than 150 of the signs at cost. The tide is turning, and the exodus to get away from Negro neighbors has slowed down considerably. Sturgess' church backed him up by voting to accept Negroes to membership. Last week a call came to Pas tor Sturgess from a couple in Johnson County, Kans. who had been considering moving to Sturgess' part of Kansas City but were frankly nervous about it. "I told them," said Sturgess, "that...