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...style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel is a Democrat, "but anyone who's Margaret's choice...
...Publisher Robinson rattled around Charlotte in his battered old Dodge to speak to citizens' groups, hustled for ads Unce on a visit to Manhattan, he phoned Colgate-Palmolive Co. Chairman E. H Little on the pretext that he wanted to pay hls respects "to the most prominent North Carolinian in New York " Little was so pleased that he sent his car around tor Robinson, who ended up with an ad contract from the soap company In 8½ years, the News's circulation has risen 30% to 69,858. advertising revenues doubled, and gross yearly earnings (before taxes...
Cecil Mayes was the first. The young (22) North Carolinian ex-Air Forceman was thumbing a ride on Chicago's West Side when a "late-model" car pulled up to the curb and the driver waved him over. "Do you believe in God?" asked the stranger, whom Mayes remembers as middleaged. "Yes," said Mayes. "Do you need some money?" "Yes," said Mayes. The man reached over, put a roll of bills in his hand and drove off. Round-eyed Bill Mayes looked down at his fist. It was clamped around six $50 bills...
Above, Jack Edwards, varsity freestyle, goes all out in a sprint start. The North Carolinian will be coach Hal Ulen's first man in the hundred this winter. Aside from ace backstroker Don Mulvey, all the team's stars will return...
Meanwhile, McMillan's book had made an impression. Its voice was not loud, but some heard it. Said the daily Columbia Record: "This book should be read by every South Carolinian regardless of race. It should be required reading in schools. It should be publicized from one end of the State to the other. . . . The facts which McMillan describes should be a source of deep shame to every resident of the Palmetto State, not so much because the conditions as he describes them exist, but because we are, for the most part, totally ignorant of them...