Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...integration to begin at Central High School, about 70 cops stood idly swinging billy clubs behind sawhorse barricades. These were the men that Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, former insurance agent turned well-meaning-but sometimes ineffectual-public servant, had said could preserve the peace in Little Rock. (Police Chief Marvin Potts apparently was not so sure: he judiciously stayed in his office.) But right at the beginning the Little Rock cops made their first and greatest mistake: they let a crowd begin to gather. It was small at first, and quiet. Asked one man in grey working clothes of another...
...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
They included Little Rock's Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann, School Superintendent Blossom and Police Chief Marvin Potts. All testified that they had neither heard nor seen any signs of violence before the opening of integrated schools in Little Rock. Between them, they could think of only one exception to a remarkable two-decade record of racial peace in their city. The exception: asked if he could recall any violent incidents during his 22 years on the police force, Chief Potts replied: "Just the usual thing. They'd get into rock fights once in a while after school hours...
...state that traditionally frowns on three terms for a governor. He needed a dramatic issue, and he needed the red-neck votes of segregationist eastern Arkansas. Beyond that, there were indications that Faubus was being used by segregationist politicians in the South. From Georgia's raucous Governor Marvin Griffin, who spoke at a Little Rock dinner last month, came loud praise for the Arkansas "preservator of the peace."- At almost the very moment that Griffin used that pretentious solecism, Faubus was using exactly the same word to describe himself...
Another youthful New York composer with a gift for vocal writing, Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily...