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Desk Work at Night. Arkansan Quarles studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Yale ('16) and Columbia, once played guitar in the band of Bazooka Man Bob Burns, a Van Buren fellow townsman. Quarles spent 34 years with Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Western Electric Co., helped develop World War II's radar. Eventually, as president of Western Electric's subsidiary
...Chronicle's fogbound pages to suave Scott Newhall, also a member of a leading San Francisco family. As executive editor, Newhall scrapped the Chronicle's old makeup of sober type marching row on row for a blaze of bold, black headlines, launched syndicated Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren (TIME, Jan. 20, 1957), assembled a cast of 20 home-town columnists. "International news," declares Thieriot, "is not what people want to read at breakfast...
...Browns is the most spectacular professional football player in the U.S. With the twelve-game season only half gone, Jimmy Brown, 22, is already within a whisker of topping the all-time pro records for touchdowns (18) and total rushing yardage (1.146) set by Philadelphia's Steve Van Buren in the 19403. In six games Brown has piled up 15 touchdowns, gained 928 yards, been the prime mover in the Cleveland Browns' try for their eighth division championship in nine years...
...again be true that "a little child shall lead them"? A rousing cheer to Christian Angie Evans, who had the courage to speak up at the anti-integration meeting [TiME, Sept. 22] in Van Buren, Ark. I am a "Southern moderate" whose voice is buried under the tide of those who clamor to keep segregation. You said that we lack "moral leadership." I heartily agree. Where are those who are ready to stand up and be counted for believing that segregation is unChristian? How can those of us here in the South start a movement wherein our voices...
Egged on by the local police chief, the leading toughs of the Van Buren, Ark. High School staged a 45-man school "strike" and managed to scare away the 13 Negro youngsters trying to return to school at term's beginning. Last week the Van Buren school board, wavering before pressure to revise the integration plan that worked last year, announced a public hearing for the anti-integration White Citizens' Council. Up before the meeting that night, to the general astonishment, stood Jessie Angeline Evans, 15, grocer's daughter, straight A student and one of the rare...