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...modest neighborhood house of flickers, Baltimore's Northwood Theatre demanded an awfully high price for a ticket-at least for Negroes. In fact, it cost years of effort and countless hours in jail by picketing students before the first Negro was, last week, admitted to the Northwood...
...most important thing about the Northwood was that it is close by the campus of Morgan State College, predominantly Negro. Morgan State's students understandably wanted to go to the show; the Northwood would not let them in. In 1955, Morgan State students began picketing the theater in a protest that has continued off and on ever since...
...weeks ago, the Morgan Staters renewed their effort-joined by white students from Johns Hopkins University and Goucher, a girls' college. In mixed groups, the students entered the Northwood lob by to buy tickets. Each time, the theater manager read aloud the Maryland trespass law. Arrests followed, and in seven days, 413 demonstrators were hauled off to jail. Most refused to post bail, set as high as $600, instead crowded six and seven to a cell, spilled over into corridors, and clambered around the penal premises...
...University of Minnesota Medical School, Larson did best in bacteriology but decided, upon graduation, to get experience in general practice. He settled in Northwood, Iowa, and did not like it. largely because there was no hospital. "I spent too much time traveling to and from patients. I didn't feel that I was making the most of myself. After six months. I went back to Minnesota and went into clinical pathology...
Lockwood was a four-event skier at Northwood School, Lake Placid, N.Y., and served in the Ski Troops during World War II. He also acted as troop instructor for a time. He is a graduate of Trinity College and did graduate work at Princeton...