Word: bowman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presbyterian Church, oldest Protestant church (founded 1833) in a restless city, stands in what used to be an all-white neighborhood. In the last decade, notably since the 1948 Supreme Court decision against Jim Crow real-estate restrictions, more and more Negroes have settled there. Under Pastor Harold L. Bowman, who had preached hard against the anti-Negro measures, Negro children began coming to First Presbyterian Sunday school, and soon adults followed. Last week, when Pastor Bowman, 67, announced his resignation after 24 years, he announced also that next month integration at his church (by now 10% Negro) will...
...blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers as Betty Furness, William Lundigan, Lee Bowman and Ronald Reagan emerged as full-time TV commercial pluggers, but now virtually all the studios are in the business of filming commercials themselves. To help make ends meet, once-mighty M-G-M even rents out its sets and props to TV producers...
...Phillies are depending heavily on rookies such as Ed Bouches, Bob Bowman, and Jack Sanford, but outside of a pitching staff headed by Robin Roberts, Harvey Haddix, Bob Miller and Curt Simmons, the Phils offer little...
Lithe, loose-muscled athletes from 49 colleges roiled University of North Carolina's Bowman Gray pool last week as they raced through the N.C.A.A. swimming championships. But in the competition for the team title, 47 of the squads had been sent to Chapel Hill for little more than a free bath. In essence, it was a dual meet between Yale and Michigan...
...Rabbi Gershon Winer filed a $425,000 suit against the Bowman Biscuit Co. in Denver for getting him fired from his $13,000-a-year post at Denver's BMH Synagogue. The company, said Gershon, had misrepresented its cookies as containing only vegetable shortening and Gershon had endorsed their sale by the synagogue's Women's League. When the cookies turned out to have been made with 20% animal fat, hundreds of Denver Jews found that they had violated the dietary laws of their faith, angrily forced Rabbi Gershon's dismissal...