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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life. Originally a moss-grown rock landmark jutting out from the south bank of the Arkansas River, Little Rock was named by Explorer Bénard de la Harpe in 1722, settled by William Lewis of Virginia in 1812, made capital of the Arkansas Territory in June 1821. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Around tne Backbone of North America | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Friendliness by Day. Not everyone in Levittown belongs to the anti-Myers Social Club. More than 1,000 residents signed a "Declaration of Conscience" deploring "acts of violence and intimidation." Some came by to mow Myers' lawn, leave gifts or say hello. But even a few of these have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: War of Nerves | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

Most dogged in the doom-crying, North or South, was Pundit David Lawrence, whose five-times-weekly column appears in 270 dailies, 62 of them in the South. By last week Lawrence (also editor of U.S. News & World Report) had written 18 consecutive columns on the evils of enforced integration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dark Valley | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

To others, this bottle biography may seem all the more embarrassing because its subject is a living person, a nightclub comedian named Joe E. Lewis.* In his youth on the Chicago nightclub circuit, Comedian Lewis distinguished himself as one of the very few who could make Al Capone laugh. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Joker Is Wild | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

*Not to be confused with the former heavyweight boxing champion or with Comedians Ted Lewis, Jerry Lewis, Robert Q. Lewis, Joe E. Brown or Joey Adams.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Joker Is Wild | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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