Word: fla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...introduced a lupine character named Simple J. Malarkey, who looked so much like the late U.S. Senator from Wisconsin (whom Kelly called "one of the great alltime comedians") that the Orlando, Fla., Sentinel threw out Kelly's strip, and several other papers filed complaints. Again in 1958, when the furor over public school integration reached one of its peaks, Kelly set Pogo the possum to talking about "speakeasy" schoolrooms, "consegregated," "de-consegregated" and "non-un-de-consegregated" schools. One Southern paper, by judicious editing, purified the sequence for its readers, and another dropped it entirely...
...fiction: Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness; nonfiction: Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960; history: Lawrence Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan Caldwell and Gene Graham of the Nashville Tennessean; international...
Died. Guy Wiggins, 78, rearguard landscape painter and National Academician, whose gay limning of snowstorms and hansom cabs held its charm-especially as a favorite of Sunday Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower-long past the representational heyday; of kidney disease; in St. Augustine, Fla...
...sand beneath a pier at Daytona Beach, Fla., a group of collegians gathered, glanced surreptitiously about, and one by one held out their arms. At that moment a passing dowager spied the scene, stared for a moment in horrified silence, and rushed away to report what was certainly a wicked rite. "I knew it!" she gasped. "They're taking the needle...
Harvard Yearbook Publication have announced the election of the following officers: Leonard L. Ellman '63, of Quincy House and Brooklyn, N. Y., resident; Albert D. Kramer '63, of Winthrop House and Norristown, Pa., business manager; Rudolf V. Ganz, Jr. '63, of Winthrop House and Ormond Beach, Fla managing editor; and Karen E. Brown '64, of Comstock Hall and Shaker Heights, Ohio, production co-ordinator and acting assistant business manager...