Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keep 'Em Out." In Maryland and Delaware the segregation issue may have decisive statewide effects. Just a few weeks ago, before Maryland's schools opened, Republican Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin was an odds-on favorite for re-election over Democrat H.C. ("Curly") Byrd. Then came trouble in the newly desegregated schools, and by last week the race was a tossup...
...Curly Byrd has been working hard, and for the most part privately, on the segregation issue. Example: with a newsman within earshot, a farmer sidled up to Byrd and asked: "What're you going to do about the shines?" Said Curly: "Keep 'em out!" When the nearby reporter said he was going to include the exchange in his story, Byrd blew up, flatly denied having made the remark...
...Byrd is handling the issue more openly. Said he, in a speech at Snow Hill on the Eastern Shore: "You will want members of the school board appointed who will be able to deal and act in accordance with the age-old customs and traditions that have been part of our way of life." As with Ed Turner, there was stomping, whooping and hollering. Governor McKeldin's reply to this veiled demagoguery is: "I stand...
...Ordered the Navy icebreaker Atka to Antarctica on an expedition to collect scientific and geographic data. Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 65-year-old polar explorer, will serve as technical adviser, although it has not been decided whether he will accompany the expedition...
...Byrd: The Four& Five-Part Masses (Pro Musica Antiqua conducted by Safford Cape; EMS). These two Masses for solo voices were composed during the Reformation in England, when Roman Catholic services were forbidden. The music is a fine sample of Byrd's mastery of counterpoint and his heartfelt devotion. It is sympathetically sung by Belgian specialists in fine music of bygone days...