Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ROBIN DOUGLAS-Chicago...
...Raisin in the Sun. Sidney Poitier leads a superb cast in Lorraine Hansberry's fine first play about the hopes, fears and dreams of a South Side Chicago Negro family...
Married. Jacqueline Gay Hart, 21, comely New Jersey debutante, whose unpremeditated flight to Chicago six weeks ago on the eve of a lavish church wedding aroused a nationwide manhunt; and Stanley Noyes Gaines, 25, her forgiving fiancé; in a secret ceremony in the Harts' Short Hills, NJ. home...
...Army corporal who was decorated by seven nations, won the Medal of Honor at Chipilly Ridge, France in 1918 when as a noncom in the 131st U.S. Infantry he stormed a German machine-gun nest, bayoneted five Germans, captured 15 more; in a Veterans Administration hospital in Chicago...
Died. Edward Eagle Brown, 74, pace-setting U.S. banker who as president (1934-45) and board chairman (1945-59) of Chicago's First National Bank helped carry Chicago's wobbly economy through the Depression, was one of the first to promote term loans, played an important part in shaping today's more flexible U.S. monetary system; of coronary thrombosis; in Chicago. An intellectual maverick for a banker, courtly Edward Brown, read a balance sheet or James Joyce with equal recall, was a lifelong Democrat who was hauled in by Chicago cops in 1912 while campaigning for Woodrow...