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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...L. MAHER...
...later CBS hired him as its director of talks and education, and in 1937 sent him to London as "European director," a one-man foreign staff charged with arranging cultural programs. As an assistant on the Continent, Murrow hired from the now-expired Universal Service a newsman named William L. Shirer. Soon the two switched from "cultural stuff" to report the Austrian Anschluss, and then, as Europe hurtled toward war, Murrow began hiring the core of what is still the best news staff of the networks. Among the "Murrow boys," as CBS calls them: Eric Sevareid, Larry LeSueur, Charles Collingwood...
...First Presbyterian Church, oldest Protestant church (founded 1833) in a restless city, stands in what used to be an all-white neighborhood. In the last decade, notably since the 1948 Supreme Court decision against Jim Crow real-estate restrictions, more and more Negroes have settled there. Under Pastor Harold L. Bowman, who had preached hard against the anti-Negro measures, Negro children began coming to First Presbyterian Sunday school, and soon adults followed. Last week, when Pastor Bowman, 67, announced his resignation after 24 years, he announced also that next month integration at his church (by now 10% Negro) will...
...word limit for undergraduate Bowdoin Prize essays has been cut in half and the submission date advanced to December 15 for the 1957-58 competition, according to John L. Sweeney, Chairman of the Committee on the Administration of Bowdoin Prizes...
...federal troops are there to protect the children, the Negro children will go to school tomorrow," said Mrs. L. C. Bates, NAACP state leader...