Word: kilpatrick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick of the Richmond News-Leader, once one of Dixie's hottest massive-resistance defenders, after last week's primary races for the 140 state legislature seats (132 Democratic). Like most politicians, Editor "Kilpo" read the results as a considerable victory for Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and his moderate school program. Politicians also saw in the results a personal comedown for the segregationist patriarch of state Democrats, U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...school integration, Richmond's Times-Dispatch and News Leader had decided that the commonwealth's maze of pro-segregation laws was foredoomed to failure. Editor Virginius Dabney's Times-Dispatch called for an assembly commission to think up new defensive tactics, and Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick's News Leader even talked about the possibility of limited, local-option integration. When the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
...continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import was not lost on the segregationists who sent News Leader Editor Kilpatrick, the most articulate spokesman for the diehard segregationists, a bitter, one-sentence telegram: "Et tn, Brute...
...cigar-to-cigar" to cheer Mr. Truman; in New York she noted that ardent Campaigner Nelson Rockefeller "plunges into a crowd as into a warm bath," and referred to Rockefeller and Governor Averell Harriman as "two millionaires tramping the streets begging for work." Reading her stories. Political Reporter Carroll Kilpatrick of the rival Washington Post and Times Herald wired Mary: IN THE INTEREST OF MY FELLOW STUMBLEBUMS, I IMPLORE YOU TO STOP WRITING. SHAMEFACEDLY YOURS...
Frogs' Legs Too. Equally tricky and time-consuming were 1) transplants of tendons from amputated legs of other patients to Kilpatrick's right hand and 2) rerouting of a major arm nerve below Kilpatrick's right shoulder. He had to have his arm splinted in a tight "V" at first, saw it gradually straightened over a period of nine months...