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...first time in the history of Greensboro, N.C. (pop. 73,703), a Negro took office last week as a member of the city council. What made it more unusual was the fact that, though Greensboro is 23% Negro, Dr. William Milford Hampton, 38, got so many white votes that he didn't even need the large majority he rolled up in the Negro districts. "Further tribute to the evolution of interracial relations," editorialized the Greensboro Daily News. After the swearing-in, fellow Councilman John Van Lindley said: "I held the same Bible with him, and I was perfectly happy...
...Jersey-born Councilman Hampton got his medical training at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, moved to Greensboro in 1940. "You live better in the South," he said...
...Hope Hampton, who traded a silent-screen career for a life of diamonds and mink as the wife of the late multimillionaire Banker Jules Brulatour, came home to her four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around...
...Virginia State 66, Hampton...
...next week, BBC announced a TV show that any sponsor would give his eyeteeth to have. Its star-if she turns up: ginger-haired, hazel-eyed Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII. Since she was beheaded in 1542, Catherine has wandered each night about her former bedchamber in Hampton Court Palace, has become one of the most celebrated ghosts in all England. While waiting hopefully for her to appear, a BBC mobile unit will televise the Queen's treasured possessions...