Word: dexter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more fascinating and a little better than other people for being Harvardmen"). In his books, the flashbacks he handled so brilliantly kept reaching farther into the past-beyond Harvard, beyond newspaper days, beyond his two marriages and divorces, eventually even beyond George Apley. His latest, unpublished book, Timothy Dexter Revisited, is a new treatment of an early subject, the story of a colonial eccentric that gave him a chance to reminisce about 18th century Newburyport, the home of his ancestors...
...Negro congregation streamed 800 strong from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery one day last week and marched toward Alabama's Capitol, 5,000 whites waited in the street. A race riot was inches away. Seething in the crowd was anger built up in the past fortnight by a Negro sit-in at a segregated lunch counter and a protest march and prayer meeting at the Capitol. Four hundred city, county and state police quickly moved between marchers and whites, dispersed them by threatening to turn on fire hoses. Violence was averted-for the moment. From tense and angry...