Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shoe section of a crowded Harlem department store, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 29, Negro leader of the peaceful, successful 1956 Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, was autographing copies of his just-published book, Stride Toward Freedom; The Montgomery Story (Harper & Bros.; $2.95). Suddenly he was confronted by a Negro woman, who demanded: "Are you Mr. King?" King nodded: "Yes, I am." Then Georgia-born Izola Ware Curry, 42, who had lived in New York City on and off for half her life, suddenly flashed a steel letter opener and stabbed King in the upper left side of his chest...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...catalogue, he needed a much fuller list of clothes, including winter boots and coats. Charles Stafford, a tavern owner from Laconia, N.H. visiting Morocco on a trade mission, met the boy, decided to help. He went home and raised $500 from his state's Rotary Clubs. Adeline Martin, a clerical worker at the Nouasseur air-base near Casablanca, sold the Volkswagen she had won in a raffle, donated a third of her take to outfit the boy. Finally, the American Export Lines booked Abdie in the owner's stateroom aboard the S.S. Examiner. The trip...
...course given by Hans Kohn, professor of History at C.C.N.Y., in Intellectual History of Continental Europe. Also praised in the Summer News poll was Chemistry S-60, given by Dudley Herschbech, Junior Fellow, and a course in the Nineteenth Century American Novel, given by Harold C. Martin, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Director of General Education Ahf. Martin won great praise from his students for the superb or-financial reasons, and dislike the job. But a good number of these men take on the task to keep alert during the muggy months, and give courses which a number of Harvard...
...MARTIN B. PRAY...