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...Josle Kiln (H) d. Eliza Glory...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Racquetwomen Snag First Ivy Title | 2/29/1984 | See Source »

...send 500 demonstrators apiece. Some local groups helped raise money to defray costs for those who wanted to take part. At an interdenominational church service in Birmingham a week ago, a special collection netted $385 for that city's 15 travelers. Sisters at the Annunciation Convent in tiny Kiln, Miss., pooled their resources so that one of their members could attend the demonstration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freeze March | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...grandson of a Mississippi slave, Wilkins was born Aug. 30, 1901, in St. Louis. His parents were both college graduates, his father an ordained minister who could find work only as a foreman in a brick kiln. When Roy Wilkins was four, his mother died of tuberculosis and he was sent to live with relatives in St. Paul. He grew up in a poor but integrated, predominantly Scandinavian neighborhood, working his way through the University of Minnesota as a porter, dining-car waiter and stockyard worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Overcame | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...lows. A few dumb gags about ROTC thugs and big breasts do not detract from the film's scabrous assaults on undergraduate caste systems, sanctimonious preppies and liberal pieties. Besides, how can one fail to like a campus film that kills off one of the coeds in a kiln explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Days | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...with a wit to match, is in the process of setting up a cabinet shop. He plans to beat the high cost of lumber and control the quality of his product by sawing and milling his own wood. An old chicken incubator stands by for ingenious use as his kiln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maine: A Crank for All Seasons | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

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