Word: colemans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made the U.S. the world's leading borax producer. Among the most successful of the earlier prospectors were Francis Marion ("Borax") Smith and William T. Coleman...
...Pianist Cy Coleman's Playroom. on West 58th Street, attracts some of the jazz buffs the Bohemia gets, some of the social and theatrical crowd the East Side clubs angle for, and some neighborhood barstool habitues. Coleman. a 27-year-old former child prodigy from The Bronx, decided to launch the room chiefly because he lived up the street, wanted a nearby showcase for his piano, and was tired of working for other people. He signed up a drummer and a bass player, opened seven months ago. He plays when the urge hits him or when the unadorned, beige...
...plan before it to put up at least half the cost of local construction. Mississippi, which would probably get $3 back for every dollar it paid out in taxes on any federal-aid bill, is darkly suspicious that the Government will attach strings to its handouts. Governor J. P. Coleman believes that "the state can take care of its own building program...
Hurrying home to meet the rebellion, Coleman lost no time blasting the "rump session" attended by "a pitiful minority of wild-eyed saboteurs." Chairman Evans is "a well-known enemy of this administration" and Vice Chairman McClellan "the greatest constitutional acrobat of all times," and both "might as well prepare for a battle royal, right down to the precinct level...
...Although Coleman declined to set a specific date for a constitutional convention, Mississippians expect it in December, a month before the legislature opens its regular session. Confident of support, when the time comes, from a bloc of young pro-Coleman legislators and from some oldtimers with specific constitutional changes on their minds, Coleman in effect gave to his newspaper question this answer: "Mississippi will have a new constitution. It cannot live without...