Word: norfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four Nieman Fellows and Louis Lyons, Curator of the Nieman Foundation, announced last night the 1948 Wendell L. Willkie Awards for Negro Journalism. Two southern newspapers, the Norfolk Va. Journal and Guide and the Atlanta Daily World are the recipients...
...mostly goletas-small, dirty fishing smacks and schooners used in the coconut and banana trade. Often, the goleta will rendezvous with a faster U.S. boat for the run to the Florida coast. Masters of bigger boats prefer to land their cargoes further up the coast, as far north as Norfolk, to elude the border patrol. Lately, light planes had entered the traffic, flown by ex-service pilots...
Choice of Weapons. In Norfolk, Va., Court Clerk Betty Jean Woolard reported that a woman, told to wait an hour for a pistol permit, had flounced out saying: "No, that would be too late. I guess I'll have to use a knife after...
This week, with no rescue yet in sight, the Navy joined the operation, sent the carrier Saipan north from Norfolk with three Piasecki ("Sagging Sausage") helicopters, each capable of carrying eight passengers. The red-faced Air Force ordered up ski-equipped planes and called in famed Arctic flyer Colonel Bernt Balchen, who had commanded the Air Force's first successful glider rescue in Alaska fortnight...
...party, sponsored by Radcliffe's Community Service organization, is the second in a series of Christmas parties given for settlement house children by dormitory residents this week. Bertram Hall and Edmands House also took on six and seven-years-olds from Norfolk House and the Cambridge Family Society Sunday...