Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Racial issues have forced the cancellation of a Glee Club concert planned for next Tuesday in Tallahassee, Fla., a professor at Florida State University said yesterday. Arrangements were dropped when that institution told the Glee Club it would be unable to guarantee a Negro member of the Club treatment identical to that given white singers...
Officials of the Club denied that the racial question had assumed any importance in the negotiations. They asserted that they had cancelled the concert because of a crowded schedule and because the fee offered by Florida State University was insufficient to cover their additional travelling expenses...
Wiley L. Hausewright, professor of Music at Florida State, who had arranged the concert, last night refuted the Glee Club spokesman. He described the events leading to Florida State officials' decision that including Monroe F. Dowling, Jr., '56 in the concert and reception following would be unwise...
...kept haunting Brenda from the heady evening of her coming-out party (cost: a reported $60,000) in 1938. Moaned she, more than a decade later: "Being a glamour girl is the worst thing that can happen to you." In Manhattan, after she got news of Kelly's Florida action last week, Brenda sighed: "I'm not too surprised. But I hadn't expected Ship to file the suit quite so soon...
...Carrying the orange silks of Leslie Combs's Spendthrift Farms on St. Patrick's Day was much too much for Nashua, the great bay colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention...