Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four-man, winner-take-all primary, Ellington's band snatched a last-minute victory from Memphis' Gore-like Reform Mayor Edmund Orgill, after rednecks blanketed rural West Tennessee with pictures of Orgill talking with Negro "friends during N.A.A.C.P. organizational meeting" (actually, he was talking to a nonpartisan civic-improvement group). Additional point for sign readers to note: victorious Segregationist Ellington and more rabid Candidate Andrew T. Taylor between them rolled up 61% of the vote in once moderate Tennessee...
With familiar singleness of purpose, 22-year-old Peter Taft, grandson of William Howard Taft, son of Cincinnati Civic Leader Charles Phelps Taft, worked his way across the Pacific as deckhand on a freighter, arrived in Melbourne to ask for the hand of a young and beautiful Australian widow. He had met her last year at Yale when, as swimming captain, he had been called upon to show her the campus. An encouraging correspondence developed. But Wendy Marshall, 21-whose husband John Birnie Marshall broke 28 world records swimming "for God, my country, and Yale" and died in an auto...
What drives Sam Newhouse is the urge to expand, and last week word leaked out that he was chasing one of the brightest properties in the nation: the Baltimore Sunpapers, which thrive on civic crusades and solid, sober news coverage (six foreign correspondents, a nine-man Washington bureau). Newhouse has offered to buy between 51% and 70% of the stock of A. S. Abell Co., which owns the three papers (morning circ. 196,725; evening circ. 214,938; Sunday circ. 317,648), plus the Sun's TV station WMAR. Estimated price for 51% control: $20 million. So eager...
...students pick the twelve prettiest. Each girl gives a short speech, and the list of quarter-finalists is narrowed. Then, amid plentiful uproar at assemblies timed to newspaper-edition deadlines, the prettiest teen-ager at each high school in Portland is named Princess of the Rose Festival, a civic promotion of considerable local sanctity...
Part of Portland's trouble, according to one principal, is the tendency of civic groups to regard high schools as the source of "a fine captive audience and a supply of free talent." Businessmen's luncheon clubs are too inclined to call up a school music director and ask him to "send the band over at noon." Schools, too, have been at fault; one music director, who boasted of the size of his department, explained that frequent student performances at nonschool events were "good for our public relations." Promised Superintendent Edwards: Music teachers will be encouraged...