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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state retreated to their old position of distrust of the North and to white supremacy. The cause of better racial relations was deeply harmed. Another instance in which the NAACP seems to have hurt itself here was by its recent protest over a decision by Federal Judge Marion Boyd involving segregated universities in Tennessee...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Negro in the South: III | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

Price of Mistake. Finally, Her Majesty's government was forced to recognize that they had made a mistake. Under new Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, agreements were worked out which changed the Kabaka from an absolute to a constitutional (and therefore more manageable) monarch, and King Freddie agreed to swear renewed loyalty and obedience to the Queen. But Freddie got more than he gave. The British reshaped the protectorate's Legislative Council to include, for the first time, more Africans than whites. They promised not to press the East African Federation. They gave Buganda control over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUGANDA: Exile's Return | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Married. Richard S. Aldrich, 52, theatrical producer (The Moon Is Blue), currently deputy director of the Foreign Operations Administration Mission in Spain; and Elizabeth Boyd, 29; he for the third time (his second: the late actress Gertrude Lawrence, about whom he wrote the current bestseller, Mrs. A.)', in Tangier, Morocco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

Damn Yankees tells of a fanatical middle-aged rooter for the Washington Senators who mutters that he'd sell his soul to have them take the pennant from the Yankees. At once a buyer with a cloven hoof appears, and transforms beefy Joe Boyd into lithe, 22-year-old Joe Hardy, the greatest ballplayer of all time. There is, however, an escape clause in the deal; and to keep Joe from escaping his clutches, the Devil puts redheaded Miss Verdon to work as an enchantress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 16, 1955 | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Bailey, Dick Savern, and Bill McAllister tied for second with 82 medal scores. Jim Jones, Doug Boyd, and Brock Stokes tied for the remaining two berths. These three and Bob Ornsteen, who dropped out after nine holes because of hay fevor, will play off today for the fifth and sixth positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golf Qualifier Held | 5/12/1955 | See Source »

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