Word: milford
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Divorced. Eva Bartok (real name: Eva Szoke), 25, eye-filling, Hungarian-born cinemasiren (The Assassin) and sometime playmate of Britain's fun-loving Marquess of Milford-Haven; by William Wordsworth, 42, London publicity agent, great-great-grandson of the English poet; after three years of marriage, no children; in London...
...Bryant Bowles, head of the Negro-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, announced that he would settle down at the scene of his greatest triumph: Milford, Del. Thereupon, he 1) was accepted as a member in the local P.T.A., 2) rented the Milford American Legion hall for a public meeting, 3) launched a fund-raising drive for the N.A.A.W.P., and 4) began collecting signatures for a petition to oust three officials who have not been displaying the proper N.A.A.W.P. attitude: State Superintendent of Public Instruction George R. Miller Jr., Milford Superintendent Ramon C. Cobbs...
...very delayed for any considerable period its enemies would have a chance to rally and obstruct it. "We have a good example of what vacillation on the part of a school board can do," he said, "when we see how bigots were able to re-establish segregation in the Milford, Delaware, public schools after its board wavered in their decision to desegregate...
...attack (his Jewish background was known in his 1950 campaign), he proved that he was no man to back down from a fight. When the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People brought suit in behalf of ten Negro students who were barred from the white Milford, Del. high school (TIME, Oct. 11), Young appeared in court to back up the N.A.A.C.P. "Here," said he. "are ten children who were attending school without incident. Why were they taken out?" Young's answer: "Mob rule...
After hearing the arguments of Young and the N.A.A.C.P., Delaware's Vice Chancellor William Marvel ruled that the ten Negroes "have a clear and legal right" to attend the Milford school. But that decision was obviously not the end of the affair. At week's end, Milford's white citizens were beginning to mutter again, and Bryant Bowles was still around to keep them aroused. "When the Negroes walk in," said he. "the whites will walk...