Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie Diner Club" and added bylaws promising "the creation of an atmosphere conducive to the development of connoisseurs of discriminating taste and epicurean pleasures." The name was all that Richberg changed...
...district court upheld the Dixie Diner's chub status, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit called the name change a "cynical canard." Said the three-judge panel: "To hold that it was an exempt club would make a mockery of the club exemption, pervert the congressional purpose, and legitimize a mere stratagem. Courts need not be so naive...
French comedian. He inherited both these artistic strains; when father painted portraits, son slyly drew caricatures of his unsuspecting sitters. Off to Paris at 20, Gerard, who by now had adopted the name of Grandville, was soon invited to contribute to a new satirical magazine. By the time his book Metamorphoses of the Day was published in 1828, Grandville's sketches, according to Thackeray, "brightened many a little room in the Pays Latin," and his studio had become a gathering place where Dumas, Balzac and Daumier gathered to talk and drink, while Grandville idly sketched caricatures as the conversation...
Died. Harry H. S. Phillips Jr., 67, first publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, founded by Time Inc. in 1954, who saw the magazine off to a swift start (250,000 subscriptions even before the name was announced) and helped it grow toward vast success (present circulation: 1,310,950) before he moved on to a corporate staff position in 1959; after a long illness; in Mount Kisco...
...continent. Whatever his success, the Pope was clearly moved by the opportunity. Speaking in accented but accurate Spanish to a crowd of peasants outside Bogota, he cried: "Greetings, greetings to you, campesinos of Colombia. And greetings to the workers of the land in Latin America. Greetings, greetings in the name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord, Our Savior. We confide to you that this meeting with you is one of of the dearest and most meaningful moments of this journey of ours. It is one of the dearest and most meaningful moments of our apostolic and pontifical ministry...