Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massive Retreat. No one seemed more aware of the fact that Georgia had to obey national authority than Governor S. Ernest Vandiver, who stepped before the lawmakers, "as a devoted father," with a sweeping plan for giving up massive resistance to integration. It was a momentous gesture, in marked contrast to such other Deep South resisters as Alabama's Governor John Patterson, who vowed last week to close his university in the face of any integration...
...listing of great men tends to be controversial, and no doubt you will receive many comments on the list. I cannot refrain from adding mine: one of this country's greatest scientists, whose place in the history of the Atomic Age belongs very near the top, was Ernest O. Lawrence, and his name should have been included...
...patient at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn, sported a scraggy white beard and a phony name. And, surprisingly, the nom de plumage lasted six weeks. Then last week the secret leaked out; the man back of the brush and calling himself Mr. George Saviers was Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway. After surviving war wounds, safari accidents and the assorted contusions of a life spent emulating the energetic characters in his own novels, Papa Hemingway, 61, had taken sick while on an Idaho hunting trip. Diagnosis: incipient diabetes complicated by high blood pressure...
...reason seemed to be winning handily at first. Federal Judge William A. Bootle found the two young Atlantans qualified for the university, ordered them admitted immediately. As Charlayne arrived from Detroit's Wayne State University and Holmes from Atlanta's Morehouse College, Georgia's Segregationist Governor Ernest Vandiver pointed out that a 1956 Georgia law would force him to cut off state funds for any desegregated school. Judge Bootle restrained him temporarily from doing that, and good will ruled the campus...
Show Girl (music, lyrics and sketches by Charles Gaynor; additional sketches by Ernest Chambers) is mostly Carol Channing, a real win-place-and-show girl with any kind of luck and, even without it, still pleasant to watch. In a "small revue" that could scarcely be smaller-besides Carol, just Jules Munshin and a singing French foursome-versatile Actress Channing performs in three out of every four numbers, often shifting gear right on stage behind a screen. She is very much a show girl in how hard she works, very much more than one in how neatly she gets...