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...Integration Must Begin." The first straightening was done by a tiny (5 ft. i in., 140 Ibs.) U.S. district judge named Ronald Davies, who had arrived in Little Rock from Fargo, N. Dak. only nine days before to take the bench of a judge who had retired. Curt, cool Judge Davies, 52, son of a small-town North Dakota' newspaper editor, got his law at Georgetown University, and practiced in Grand Forks (pop. 32,500) until President Eisenhower appointed him to the bench in 1955. Davies took just six minutes to order the school board to go ahead with...
Sioux Falls, S. Dak...
Names: Alfred K. Stern, 59, of Fargo, N. Dak., Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University and Chicago; Martha Dodd Stern, 48, daughter of U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1933-37) William...
Careers: He inherited a big bank account from his North Dakota banking family, tried banking in Fargo, N. Dak. (1918-19). flopped at Sears, Roebuck & Co. in Chicago (1921-25), married very rich Marion Rosenwald* in 1921 (they were divorced in 1937), did better on the board of multimillionaire father-in-law Julius Rosenwald's Rosenwald Fund, also sat in as chairman of the Illinois State Housing Board (1933-37). She went to the University of Chicago (1926-30), learned there, as she put it. about "inequality, injustice, economic persecution," put in two years as assistant literary editor...
...nearby town of Custer, S. Dak. (pop. 3,000), Ziolkowski became a center of controversy. At the Gold Pan Tavern and Flyspeck Billy's along Custer's main street, just four miles from Crazy Horse, sentiment ran high. More than half the town was behind Ziolkowski. but some of the people thought that Crazy Korczak would be a better name for the venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when...