Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd...
Died. Sam Byrd, 47, actor, producer and novelist, who set a Broadway record with 1,151 consecutive performances (1933-36) as Dude Lester in Tobacco Road, during which time he bounced 18 squash balls to shreds against Jeeter Lester's poor-white shack; of leukemia; in Durham...
...bootlegging increased again in Holmes County, Editor Smith repeatedly attacked Sheriff Richard F. Byrd. Then, on the Fourth of July weekend last year, the sheriff drove up to a group of Negroes gathered about a small country store at Tehula. He asked one of them, Henry Randle, 27, what he meant by "whooping." The Negro denied any whooping, witnesses reported, and the sheriff cursed and struck him. When Randle raised his arm to ward off the blows, the sheriff drew his pistol and yelled, "Get going!" As Randle ran off, Sheriff Byrd reportedly shot him in the thigh...
Editor Smith ran the story-along with the fact that she had not been able to reach Sheriff Byrd for a statement. The next week, with Byrd still silent, she front-paged an editorial that won her the second top award from the Federation of Press Women: "The laws in America are for everyone-rich and poor, strong and weak, white and black. The vast majority of Holmes County people are not rednecks who look with favor on the abuse of people because their skins are black. Byrd has violated every concept of justice, decency and right...
Playing a harpsichord with two keyboards and seven pedals, Ralph Kirkpatrick presented representative pieces from Baroque masters of England, France, Holland, Germany and Italy. Many of these pieces were stylized dance forms, such as a Galliardo and a Pavana by England's William Byrd. The Pavana was a slowly paced, simple tune adorned with incredibly rapid scale passages and trills...