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...there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the walls of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage as part of the deal, which Osborne gave, laughing that his clerk would be so bold. The girl, Tora Lucille, 30 years younger than her fiancee, educated...
Ralph Bell finished his studies at Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and settled down in the same old house, even though nobody gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that Kanawha County schols would damn well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a pistol under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out a $250,000 insurance policy...
...resurgence of a populist censorial spirit has, in a sense, sneaked up on the nation. National attention has focused on a few notorious censorship cases, such as the book-banning crusade that exploded into life-threatening violence in Kanawha County. W. Va., in 1974. But most kindred episodes that have been cropping up all over have remained localized and obscure...
...response to one parent's objection to some of the language. It was not much bigger news when Anaheim, Calif., school officials authorized a list of approved books that effectively banned many previously studied books, including Richard Wright's classic Black Boy. And who recalls the Kanawha, Iowa, school board's banning The Grapes of Wrath because some scenes involved prostitutes...
Ralph Bell finished his studies at Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and settled down in the same old house, even though nobody gave him any business after that day in 1955 when he stood on the steps of the county court house and vowed that the Kanawha County schools would dawn well integrate; two years later his son Thomas Scott Bell was born and Ralph still slept with a piston under his blanket, the same one he would use to blow his brains out with, six months to the day after taking out a $250,000 insurance...