Word: garlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Garland, 60, drama critic (1943-51) for the New York Journal-American, and playwright (The Double Miracle)] of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...devise strategy for evading the U.S. Supreme Court's school desegregation order, Virginia's Governor Thomas B. Stanley appointed a legislative commission headed by State Senator Garland Gray, a dependable cog in U.S. Senator Harry Byrd's Democratic Party organization. The Gray Commission hammered out a compromise designed to head off integration in communities that oppose it, and permit it in others. Even so, the plan was meeting unexpected opposition. Reason: quite apart from its cautious sabotage of the Supreme Court order, many Virginians thought the Gray plan might wreck their public-school system...
...biggest insurance companies, U.S. (for "United Services") Trust & Guaranty, was padlocked by the courts, and 128,000 investors and policy holders, mostly in low-income groups, were faced with a loss of more than $5,000,000. Said Texas Insurance Commission Chairman Garland F. Smith: "I don't know any bankruptcy in the history of Texas that will affect more people. It's hard to sleep, thinking about those people who lost their money...
...over Islam's holiest places and the world's richest oil lands. His party of 234, including nine royal princes and a dozen sheiks, was seven times as large as that which accompanied Bulganin and Khrushchev. When some of India's 40 million Moslems tried to garland the King's head with flowers, strapping bodyguards, slung with pistols, gold-hilted scimitars and jeweled daggers, stepped in to intercept them...
...effort to widen its audience. CBS's Annie Oakley frankly aims at showing that the female is more deadly than the male, and on NBC's Frontier, the rustle of petticoats is fast drowning out the creak of chaps. In last week's show, plucky Beverly Garland, though frail, put-upon and pregnant, drove her weak-spirited menfolk and a herd of cattle more than 600 long miles, through drought, ambush and ennui, from parched Texas to verdant Wyoming. Subsequent Frontier programs will tell of Poker Alice (Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains...