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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the sale Fort Lauderdale golfers heard unhappily that greens fees ($1.50 in summer, $3 in winter) will soon be raised to cover taxes, improvements, and a ten-year $373,400 mortgage. Unhappy also was the city's young (30) Mayor John V. Russell, who voted against the sale, pointed .to other Southern cities, where Negroes seldom appear on integrated courses. Outspoken Mayor Russell outlined a problem worrying many another Dixie city official: "A handful of Negroes can put us out of the recreation business entirely. We have miles of public beaches, a swimming pool, and the finest marina...
...various unofficial accounts of this meeting heard round the world last week are all from Communist sources. They may be generally correct, but they have one ulterior purpose: to convince the non-Communist world, inside and outside Russia, that a genuine democratic committee fight can be staged in destalinized Moscow and put to a vote. Undoubtedly there was a .heated Presidium meeting, followed by a meeting of the Central Committee, which lasted far beyond normal duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would...
What the audience at Seattle's Colony Club saw in the spotlight was a little (4 ft. 11 in.) button-nosed Nisei girl in toreador pants and white coat, with a pony tail that hung below her shoulders. What they heard when she began to sing was a booming, brassy voice that all but rattled the ice in the highballs. After the rousing chorus of Anything Goes, she slipped into a slow and smoky Fine and Dandy with a voice which she seemed to have husked up from somewhere in the floor. She was clean and limber...
...York and (she hoped) Europe before settling for a teaching career. In Manhattan her money dribbled away. To pay the rent Pat was willing to try anything, landed a walk-on spot in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon. Cast members heard her after-hours warbling, urged her to go professional. She memorized The Rodgers and Hart Song Book, was signed by the Colony at first hearing...
When 1,500 of the world's leading experts gathered in Geneva last week for the fourth International Poliomyelitis Congress, they heard some good news and bad. The good: in countries using wide-scale vaccination, the disease is already on the decline. The bad: polio is breaking out in parts of the world where it has not previously been recognized...