Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike previous days, the Negroes did not use side doors to enter. Soldiers took them directly to the main entrance, and flanked the students as they climbed the long flight of steps leading to the main doors of the impressive sandstone building. Inside the school, white and Negro students heard Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker tell an assembly that "You have nothing to fear from my soldiers, . . ." but "I would be less than honest if I did not tell you that I intend to use all means necessary to prevent any interference with the execution of your school board...
...Fare. In Detroit, Cabby Roscoe Damron, 60, heard his passenger mumble "something about having no money," pulled up to a police station, went in to fetch help, returned to find...
...couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Paul and Jo have been burlesquing other pop performers at parties for years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher, because he thought it had a properly ossified ring). The howling mistakes on the album, says Weston, are about half planned and half caused...
...year-old Real Colegio del Corpus Christi. Councilman Guillot's main problem was that he knew nothing about the missing El Greco, not even its subject. The clue he needed could not have been simpler. When the director of Madrid's Museum of Modern Art heard of his search, he remembered seeing, some 20 years ago, an El Greco painting of a Camaldolite Order monastery in the Colegio's attic...
...that Congress may be asked to help take the sting out of the tax bite by special legislation lowering the capital-gains tax for this sale. The Government is expected to present its plan next week to Chicago's Federal Judge Walter La Buy, who originally heard the case and must approve the final settlement...