Word: levison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ARTHUR A. LEVISON...
Washington Correspondent Frances Levison, while covering the Kefauver hearings, discovered a new hazard to her profession when she was called by her bureau's deskman, who asked: "Where were you? We were watching TV and you weren't at the press table...
Died. Commander John Kenneth Levison Ross, 75, railroad scion (his father: James Ross, a builder of the Canadian Pacific) who inherited $10 million in 1916, set up a racing stable which sent Canada's only Kentucky Derby winner to the post (Sir Barton, 1919); after long illness; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
...town reporters wrote that perhaps the Levisons were being persecuted because of their religion. At that point Greenfielders lost patience. They objected to the slur on their town, resented the trouble the Levisons were causing. Customers stopped going to Levison's sawmill; stores stopped extending him credit. Finally the Levisons moved out of town. But they were not giving up their fight...
Last week the battle ended. The Illinois supreme court ruled that since Mrs. Levison had been to college and was following the prescribed school courses, she was indeed a qualified teacher and could keep Carolyn at home. It had nothing to do with religious freedom, said the court. Any Illinois parent, if he gave his child as good a schooling as the school, might properly do the same thing...