Word: marian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead (he did not actually die until early the next morning), a crowd of 300 to 400 converged on the bar and began throwing bricks, setting fires, and looting stores in the neighborhood. In one episode, a group of black youths stopped a car at random, pulled out Marian Pyszko, a candy-factory worker on his way home, and bludgeoned him with a piece of concrete. Pyszko, 54, a Nazi concentration-camp survivor who emigrated from Poland in 1958, died three days later...
...Modern jazz Quartet's pianist, John Lewis as well as Marian McPartland, will be performing tonight at Sanders Theatre. Lewis is past his prime, but at one time he was pretty innovative. Tickets are available through Holyoke Center ticket office at $3 and $4 a piece. The show starts...
...Marian Heiskell, LL.D., newspaper executive and conservationist. A director of the New York Times, you criticize editorial policy by writing a letter to the editor...
...Marian Wright Edelman, 35. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, Marian Wright became the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi. In 1968 she went to Washington, soon became chief counsel to Ralph Abernathy's Poor People's Campaign. Later, as director of the Washington Research Project, a public-interest law firm, she pressed the Government to enforce federal agency guidelines in desegregation cases. With husband Peter (see below), Mrs. Edelman moved to Boston in 1970, is now director of the Children's Defense Fund, a broadened outgrowth of her Washington work...
...planning at the University of Massachusetts. "Some of us who have been enamored of Washington tended to forget how much you can accomplish at the local level," says the Minneapolis-born, Harvard-educated Edelman, who has launched university courses for prison inmates and other nontraditional students. Like his wife Marian, he is a supporter of children's rights. A onetime law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, Edelman worked for Common Cause before he went to UMass...