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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly past midnight a group of about eight or ten dark figures darted through the moonlight toward the Poplarville, Miss. courthouse. Opening a window, they slipped into the sheriff's office. They seemed to know that the jailer had gone for the night. They knew, too, that the cell keys were in a metal cabinet in the sheriff's office. Some of the raiders waited in the darkened second-floor courtroom, while a few others, wearing gloves and masks, pushed their way through the courtroom into the cell area just above. A voice barked and startled Prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Lynch Law | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

After husking a torrid version of Lover, Come Back to Me, Secretarial Student Pat Williams, 18, went "numb" with astonishment upon hearing herself acclaimed. Winning the beauty derby over nine white finalists, the well-stacked (36-24½-37) new Miss Sacramento, first Negro ever to wear the local crown, now aspires to the Miss California and Miss America titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 4, 1959 | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...world's museums means that any footloose traveler can now see ten times the masterpieces his great-grandfather had access to, even if that great-grandfather happened to be a duke. Guides to the major museums are easily come by, and visitors to Paris are not likely to miss the Louvre. But Europe also has great treasures still in private or semiprivate collections, secluded abbeys, obscure churches and castles that well repay the discriminating wanderer. TIME herewith begins a new color series of such Hidden Masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: HIDDEN MASTERPIECES: Holbein's Henry VIII' | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Miss Winer insisted that the paper has a "great future." The Radcliffe Student Government Association has also voiced support of Miss Winer's endeavor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Percussion' Will Publish Again; New Editor Seeks 'Cliffe Support | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Most of the glop falls to Joy Myers as Ida, which is profoundly unfair, since Miss Myers is a big, beautiful girl with a big, beautiful voice, and deserves better. She can belt it out with the best of them when belting is required, but she has a comic sense unusual in a soprano, and manages, almost miraculously, to avoid giving the impression that she is about to emit a "ho-jo-to-ho," grab a horse, and make it back to Valhalla...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Princess Ida | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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