Word: colors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bestselling Novelist Willard (Knock on Any Door) Motley looked suspiciously like a mugger to Chicago police, as he prowled about the Gold Coast early one morning, absorbing local color. He talked strangely, too, after the cops picked him up. "I'm a jack-roller," he cracked, refusing to give his name, "but the pickings are pretty thin tonight." Later, at the station house, he let them in on the gag, and they let him off on $10 bond...
...Color-TV hearings before the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got down to figures last week. Radio Corporation of America's Elmer W. Engstrom. vice president in charge of research, cautiously estimated that color converters for present black & white receivers would cost from...
Charges of "job discrimination" were leveled at Hasen's Restaurant by two undergraduates and their friends yesterday afternoon, but John M. Whouley, owner of the Massachusetts Avenue eating place, strenuously denied that he or his manager hired or fired on the basis of race or color...
...years. The Rev. Donald Carr Sparks has been vicar there for only ten years. But to Vicar Sparks the church's drab interior and plain, pitch-pine pews seemed "very institutional." Last week, the parishioners of Bolton upon Dearne were doggedly trying out a brave new ecclesiastical color scheme-red (pews), white (walls) and blue (doors). "The whole idea," Vicar Sparks explained, "is to bring color and warmth to the church without making it gaudy...
...crime' and, in the minds of many, with 'rape.'" In 4½ months, the respected Macon News and Sunday Telegraph-News ran 153 headlines identifying Negroes with violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...