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...state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis...
Although Adams' Bob Gilmer gained a fifth in the run, the Gold Coasters' team finished a disappointing seventh, and dropped to sixth place...
...newspaper readers. Last week Bell Syndicate let out a well-kept secret: Mrs. Agnelli is the new "Dorothy Dix." She is also the wife of the syndicate's general manager, Joseph Agnelli. She has been writing the column for more than a year, helping out ailing Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, the original Dorothy Dix. When Mrs. Gilmer died last December at 90, Muriel Agnelli took over title to the column in fee simple...
Died. Dorothy Dix (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer), 81, first and most famous newspaper dispenser of advice to the lovelorn; in New Orleans. Herself the victim of an unhappy marriage (her husband was stricken with a mental illness within a year of their marriage) and a pioneer sob sister (six years on the New Orleans Picayune, 16 on Hearst's New York Journal), she had a large stock of common sense bromides handy by the time she settled in New Orleans to give counsel to readers. As her column expanded to more than 200 newspapers, and brought her more than...
...Oldest: Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer's "Dorothy Dix" (since...