Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bitter-end segregationist, Freshman Representative James Martin, 47. Martin, who entered politics in 1962, came within 6,800 votes of winning Veteran Lister Hill's U.S. Senate seat in that year by campaigning on the integration issue and his "perfect 13-year attendance record" at Kiwanis Club meetings. This experience could be a powerful arguing point if Martin runs against Lurleen...
...University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...
Died. James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago...
...five female judo artists are part of Radcliffe's eight-girl judo program, which was started in 1961. The club, the first undergraduate judo club for women in the Northeast, is a member of the Judo Black Belt Foundation of America...
...Cliffie enthusiasts train for three hours a week at the Bay State Judo Club in Newton and are coached by Dorothy Douglas, an honest-to-God black belt...