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...convicted of similar charges in 1949) are sent off to prison. Among them were familiar figures: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 60, national committee member and New York Daily Worker columnist; Party Theoretician Alexander Trachtenberg, 65, a product of Russia and Yale; Simon Gerson, 41, onetime candidate for New York City councilman and longtime party newspaperman...
...Greensboro is 23% Negro, Dr. William Milford Hampton, 38, got so many white votes that he didn't even need the large majority he rolled up in the Negro districts. "Further tribute to the evolution of interracial relations," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News. After the swearing-in, fellow Councilman John Van Lindley said: "I held the same Bible with him, and I was perfectly happy...
...Jersey-born Councilman Hampton got his medical training at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, moved to Greensboro in 1940. "You live better in the South," he said...
...Councilman Chester Higgley introduced a resolution to allow all night parking in Cambridge from April to November every year. This would overcome present objections that cars parked all night interfere with snow removal. The resolution was sent to committee as the council unanimously agreed on the resolution in principle. In the past, similar proposals have been submitted and rejected...
...Council unanimously passed Councilman Edward J. Sullivan's order to the License Bureau to be more careful about issuing permits for moves in Cambridge. Sullivan commented that "someone was lax" in allowing the film "Ecstasy" to be shown at New Lecture Hall two nights last week. He also indicated, however, that he would not press the issue of the movie's showing...