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...Milford, Del. one day last week, Principal M. A. Glasmire marched up to the door of his high school, and while the chief of police looked on, solemnly tacked up a sign: "CLOSED Until Further Notice." Milford's two public schools were shut last week, for the town had never been in quite so ugly a mood. There were mass meetings, telephoned threats, promises of violence-all because eleven Negro students had been admitted to the high school along with 665 whites...
Until this fall, the town's Negroes had gone to a Negro high school in Dover, 19 miles away. But in view of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision, the Milford school board decided that it would admit Negro students to the tenth grade. As a result, 1,500 citizens jammed into the American Legion hall to protest. A few, nights later, 1,000 more presented the school board with a petition demanding that the Negroes be dropped. A group even paid a midnight visit to Board President W. Dean Kimmel, warned him that some of their numbers...
...primarily from brain damage incurred before, during or just after birth. The doctors' conclusion: rather than being victims of inherited disease, epileptics may be "reproductive casualties" (like stillborn infants and cerebral palsy victims) whose ailments could be forestalled partly through better care before and during birth. ¶ Dr. Milford Thewlis of the American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous "overtreatment." Samples: too-vigorous examinations, overdoses of drugs, too-hasty resort to surgery. Said Thewlis: "As a matter of fact, many [elderly] people seem to get along...
John M. Karl, Milford, History; Donald D. Fitts, Keene, Chemistry; Kenneth W. Smith, Lebanon, Biology...
Married. Wogan Philipps, 52, eldest son of Britain's millionaire Baron Milford and unsuccessful onetime (1950) Communist candidate for Parliament; and Tamara Rust, 40, widow of William Rust, longtime (1930-49) editor of London's Communist Daily Worker; he for the third time, she for the second; in London. When Philipps succeeds to his father's title, he will become the House of Lords' first Communist member, his wife the realm's first Communist peeress...