Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...campaigning for a municipal election was getting in high gear, the Rev. Theodore Gibson, president of the Miami N.A.A.C.P., called on City Manager Ira Willard with a plea that Miami's sternly segregated recreational facilities be opened to Negroes. To the Rev. Gibson's surprise, South Carolinian Willard swiveled in his chair and tossed the question to City Attorney William L. Pallot. The Supreme Court, said Pallot. has made the issue clear-a city has no right to bar Negroes from public facilities. At City Manager Willard's direction, word immediately went out to recreation workers that...
...Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only $1,725. After the hearings, Leonard landed in a hospital, claimed that he had been bludgeoned while closing his garage door. While Carbo and Palermo were applying threats, charged the indictment, Gibson "would use his power and authority to persuade victims ... to accede...
Boxing's No. 1 hood is natty Frankie ("Mr. Grey") Carbo, 55, among whose brushes with the law is a conviction for manslaughter. Boxing's leading intellectual is a suave, light-skinned Negro lawyer named Truman K. Gibson Jr., 47, who had remained unsullied by the fight game's messier side while supplying the brainpower for Jim Norris' monopolistic International Boxing Club (dissolved by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January). Last week, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down an indictment that lumped together Gibson and Carbo, plus a dull-eyed Philadelphia thug...
...Truman Gibson, winner of the prestigious Medal for Merit for his services as civilian aide in the War Department in World War II. still has plenty of power over a boxer's future: he is president of National Boxing Enterprises, Inc. of Illinois (successor to the I.B.C.), which puts on TV's Wednesday-night fights. "I was picked up and handled like a murderer," complained Gibson after his arrest in Chicago. As for Jordan, he was taking the whole affair in stride. When newsmen finally caught up with the champ, he was hanging around with none other than...