Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...please don't call me tiny") U.S. District Judge Ronald Norwood Davies. who came temporarily from Fargo, N. Dak. to preside over the Eastern District of Arkansas. To report on the life and times of Judge Davies, TIME Chicago Correspondent Ed Darby flew to wind-blown North Dakota (his plane was grounded on the way to Grand Forks when a door flew open in mid-air). And one night, done with work for a while. Ronald Davies sat shirtsleeved in his Little Rock chambers, talked long and thoughtfully to Chicago Bureau Correspondents Jack Olsen and Burt Meyers...
...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 its plans despite Governor Faubus. Said he: "Integration must begin...
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...
Drifting toward South Dakota, Simons recorded three facts that challenge man's notions of the upper atmosphere: ¶ The sky above him was completely dark at high noon, but he could not see any stars or planets. Therefore, contrary to expectations, aviators of the future may not be able to rely on daytime celestial navigation...
...China Hands. Other editors were quick to agree with the Trib. South Dakota's Republican Sioux Falls Argus Leader (circ. 51,575), which has sent staffers to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...