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...315th Air Division, under Brigadier General Theodore Kershaw, can airlift units of the 3rd Marine Division to Laos from Okinawa in 196 sorties...
Though some professors have left because of their salaries, which are an average $1,200 a year below the national average for state universities, most give as their reason increasing infringement on their freedom. Best publicized example came last year, when the university barred the Rev. Alvin Kershaw from speaking at its Religious Emphasis Week (TIME, Feb. 27, 1956). The reason: Kershaw, who had won $32,000 on a quiz program as a jazz expert, had said he was going to give some of his winnings to the N.A.A.C.P. Professor Morton B. King Jr., for 20 years chairman...
Religious Emphasis Week at the University of Mississippi was rapidly approaching, and the committee on arrangements thought it had a solid list of guest speakers. Among them was the Rev. Alvin Kershaw of Oxford, Ohio, the Episcopal rector who won $32,000 on TV's The $64,000 Question a few months ago by answering questions on jazz.* A mild-mannered man, he seemed anything but controversial. No one could have suspected that he would set off the weird chain reaction of resignations and denunciations that hit Mississippi last week...
...reaction began when James Morrow Jr. of the state legislature wrote Chancellor J. D. Williams of the university that Kershaw had said he would give some of his winnings to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Morrow suggested that Williams "revoke the Reverend's invitation ever to appear in Mississippi." Later Kershaw wrote a letter to the student Mississippian conceding that he had indeed supported the N.A.A.C.P. because "I am convinced that the core of religious faith is love of God and neighbor." Though Kershaw's scheduled topic ("Religion and Drama") sounded innocent enough, Chancellor...
LAMENTABLE THAT ALVIN L. KERSHAW DID NOT PROJECT HIS FUNERAL REVISIONS TO ELIMINATE EVEN DEATH ITSELF...