Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regents envision Davis as the cultural leader of the Central Valley. The English faculty is adorned with men such as Hart Crane Biographer Brom Weber and Critic-Short Story Writer William Van O'Connor. Music has avant-garde Composer Larry Austin, protege of Darius Milhaud. Painters Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen help make Davis tops in art among Cal campuses. Drama boasts talented young acting students with a beard or two, and this year's visiting lecturer, Director Joseph Schildkraut, has already staged an excellent Peer Gynt. Symbolic of the times, the old Davis livestock judging barn...
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Singing in the Rain, one of the best musicals Hollywood ever produced, starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds. Color...
...priority was raising a library. Pitts armed his students with tin cans so that they could dun Negro families for "a mile of dimes." Bull Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, vetoed the drive. "What about all these kids with their tin cans?" Pitts asked, but Connor stood firm, and Pitts had to call off the drive. Incensed at Connor's meanness, people all over the country chipped in books. Yale students collected 6,000 books and delivered them personally; the Miles library now has 28,000 volumes...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturer on Social Psychology, yesterday called the Chairman of the Boston School Committee "Boston's own Bull Connor." He charged the Committee's chairman, Mrs. Louise D. Hicks, with evading and suppressing Negro protests against alleged de facto segregation in Roxbury...
Father O'Connor summed up his observations on the Saigon story: "Many U.S. correspondents come and go in South Viet Nam. Only about half a dozen can be called in any sense permanent here . . . Ever since September 1954, some French commentators, journalistic and others, have been forecasting for President Ngo Dinh Diem the collapse they apparently hoped for . . . There is plenty to criticize, as in most governments, especially those recently developed and under enemy fire. But there is certainly far more to be criticized in Red-ruled North Viet...