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Word: coxes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to the NAACP's handling of both the Till case and Boyd's decision was the reaction of two social workers, Dr. David Minter and Gene Cox, in another case widely publicized here. Minter and Cox were ordered to leave Holmes County by a mass meeting of the Citizens' Council because they worked for integration. The first action the two men took, however, was to call up every New York and Washington religious and political group which might protest and tell it not to say anything for the present...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Negro in the South: III | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

...plan originated one day last summer when McCurdy was visiting some old friends of his: Vern Cox, cross country coach at Springfield College, and Dick Miller, the Washington and Lee mentor. Running soon became the main topic of conversation...

Author: By Winthrop P. Smith, | Title: McCurdy Originated Telegraphic Meets | 11/26/1955 | See Source »

Unkindest Cut. In McCallsburg, Iowa, after being nabbed for driving a stolen car. Charles L. Cox admitted to police that the unforeseen arrest had forced him to cancel his plan to rob a nearby bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Since the departure of Wally Cox, George Gobel is the shyest comic left on television. Gobel ended last season No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings, but his opening program did not have the look of a winner as Gobel traded arch repartee with a fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...doctors cannot yet be sure whether the operation will be a permanent success, they can point to some encouraging, if rare, precedents in recent years. In 1952 Army Private Leonard Kijowski donated skin to twin brother Leo (TIME. Feb. 4, 1952), and both made good recoveries. Last summer Major Cox treated an airman suffering from third-degree burns over 45% of his body area, saved his life when he chanced to spot his twin brother wandering around the hospital corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Twins Under the Skin | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

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