Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show, carried by CBS and ABC, had a cast headed by singers Tony Martin, Marion Marlowe and Martha Wright, who set the mood of remembrance with snapshots of Mamie over the years. Their songs, her favorites, were Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, I Dreamt that I Dwelt in Marble Halls, Lovely Lake Geneva, The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, Down Among the Sheltering Palms (as a dance team dressed as Mamie and Ike, pre-World War 1, cut figures on the screen), Till We Meet Again, Tiptoe Through the Tulips, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Wunderbar...
...trial in Montgomery was the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 27, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and leader of the Negro boycott against the Montgomery bus company (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.}. King was the first of 90 defendants (including 24 ministers) to be tried under an Alabama law (enacted in 1921 as an antilabor measure) making it a misdemeanor to conspire "without a just cause or legal excuse" to hinder any company in its conduct of business...
...Come Out, Nigger." As the trial began, Montgomery's firm, plain-spoken Circuit Judge Eugene Carter looked out at Martin Luther King, surrounded by eight lawyers and backed by some 150 Negro spectators, many of them wearing cloth crosses with the words, "Father, forgive them." Prosecutor William Thetford produced evidence that the Montgomery Improvement Association had disbursed about $30,000 for boycott purposes; e.g., drivers in the boycott's 200-car motor pool were paid up to $24 a week...
Defending for the varsity against the crack offensives of the four southern powers will be lettermen Leo Daley, Roger Martin, Frederick Sharf, plus sophomore Jim Herscot...
Cohen will anchor the shuttle hurdle team to Carter, Art Martin, and Robertson. McCurdy will probably enter his top mile relay of Robertson Jim Cairns or Al Wills, French Anderson, and anchorman Dick Wharton. Morris, Williams, Reider, and Wilson will form the two-mil relay and Mayo, Carter, Greer, and Bruck will...