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...Lawyer Ben Garland of Jackson: empower local school boards to segregate the schools on the basis of sex, color, or whatever other qualifications they wish...
...Texas, where ten insurance companies have gone broke in 16 months, there was another crash last week. It was the biggest yet. C. B. Erwin, board chairman of General American Casualty Co., * and two other sad-faced executives walked into the Austin office of State Insurance Commissioner Garland Smith and admitted that General American was bankrupt. It was $1,000,000 in debt and unable to pay its claims. General American, which collected $6,000,000 in premiums last year, has 120,000 policyholders in Texas and nine other Southern states...
...assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
Miami Story (Columbia). "No matter how much you take off," says a hard female voice from the dark side of the room, "my gun will keep you covered." Mick Flagg (Barry Sullivan), ex-gangster, stops undressing, strolls casually toward the mysterious intruder (Beverly Garland) and lights a cigarette. Next instant, he flips the match at her eyes, leaps forward, grabs her gun, slaps her hard across the face and drags her to the light. She is beautiful. It is love at first fight...
With half a mile to go, stroke Keith Garland upped the beat slowly as the Crimson shell edged up on M.I.T. The crew gathered momentum as the stroke hit 39 and the gap between the two shells dropped to a matter of feet...