Word: dora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt first appeared at the white public school in Mount Dora, Fla., Principal D. D. Roseborough suspected that there might be trouble. Skins of some of the children were so brown that pupils and their parents wondered whether the children might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...
...Parent . . ." Had it not been for Mount Dora's courageous weekly newspaper Topic, the case might have ended right there. But the Topic's editor Mabel Norris Reese had long been in battle with the bullying sheriff, and in spite of all reprisals-a flaming cross on her lawn, the poisoning of her dog and the smearing of "K.K.K." across her office windows-she was ready to wage war again. The Platts, she told her readers, were of Irish-Indian stock, probably descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's "lost colony" of Roanoke. "If you are a parent...
Last week the FBI said it would investigate for possible violations of civil rights. Otherwise, Mount Dora seemed to be trying to forget the whole affair. The Platts had moved into a cabin out of town, their children were out of school and as far as anyone could tell, no one besides Editor Reese seemed to care...
...Francoise, now 30, was Picasso's fourth great love. From 1904 to 1917 he lived with a famous beauty known as "La Belle Fernanda." In 1918 he married Ballerina Olga Koklova (who bore him a son), divorced her in 1937. From 1938 to 1945 his girl was Photographer Dora Maar...
Time Out. In Knoxville, Tenn., seeking a divorce, Mrs. Dora Carroll Smith charged that for 13 months her husband Isaac had left the house whenever the rent came due, refused to come home until she paid...