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...Advancement and Protection of the Majority of the White People, chartered in Georgia last June, claims it will fight "any and all legal actions brought to destroy segregation laws between the White Race and the Colored Race." Among its founders: Dr. Marvin Head, onetime Chief Klansman of Griffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Day of the Demagogues | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

Last week the trustees picked as president Frank L. Griffin, 73, former mathematics professor. And the question still remains, said Duncan Ballantine bitterly, "does Reed really want a president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Reed Tries Again | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

Summer Holiday (Tues. & Thurs. 7:45 p.m., CBS) features Singer Betty Ann Grove, who used to be a TV colleague of Bert Parks and has absorbed much of his manic, eye-batting vitality. The co-star is Singer Merv Griffin. The show was created by Irving Mansfield, who last summer created almost exactly the same show for the same sponsor, but it was then called Summertime, U.S.A. and starred Singers Teresa Brewer and Mel Torme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Imitators | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...Lieut. Governor S. Marvin Griffin of Atlanta: let city and county school boards assign each student to a school. Griffin also suggested a residency requirement to keep "foreign agitators" out of the state. "Social equality," said he, "is impossible. The schools are not going to be mixed come hell or high water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Strategists | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

Bracing Brother. In 1932 the Griffins are a well-to-do Los Angeles family, so close that no member breathes except through the smothering palm of another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost: Another Generation | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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