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...powder-blue building that houses a most unusual factory. The clattering machines that each day churn out 600,000 pens, pencils and markers are ordinary enough, but the work force is special. The warehouse manager, for example, is Donald Little Bull, and the second-shift supervisor is Le-Roy Bullshoe. The chief executive is Chief Earl Old Person, 52, head of the Blackfeet tribe and chairman of the Blackfeet Indian Writing...
CANAL COMMUTE. The open aqueducts and flood-control canals that snake to and through many cities might be used for commuter boats. Said Le-Roy Louchart of Fair Oaks, Calif.: "I know I for one would enjoy a cruise to the office in the morning...
Chief credit clearly belongs to Mervyn (Quo Vadis, No Time for Sergeants) Le-Roy, the old Hollywood pro who directed the picture. Under his skillful guidance. Actress Simmons gives one of her most sensitive and graceful performances. And even Rhonda Fleming has been persuaded to make a variety of facial expressions that generally accord with what she is saying. But Dan O'Herlihy steals the show with one of the year's finest screen performances. Limited, insensitive, frightened, petty, penny-pinching, pompous, ambitious, but with it all somehow trying to be decent, trying to be kind, the husband...
Many Southerners, e.g., Governors Le-Roy Collins of Florida and Luther Hodges of North Carolina, were in no hurry to answer Timmerman's letter; other governors, Mississippi's James P. Coleman and Georgia's S. Marvin Griffin, got off polite but noncommittal answers. Less tolerant was the Atlanta Constitution, which acidly editorialized that "history teaches some people few lessons, especially if they happen to be governors of South Carolina." Then it put" its finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot...
Florida). When her father explained, she remarked: "Since you've been governor, what we've needed is a lieutenant daddy." A Matching Program. Thomas Le-Roy Collins' grandfather, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, came to Florida from Texas around 1870, died in a pulpit near Tallahassee. The governor's father ran a small grocery, later a wholesale grocery business. He did not have enough money to send his children to college, but he promised to match, dollar for dollar, whatever they earned and saved. "He was years ahead of Roosevelt," says Governor Collins, who deals these...