Word: plumpings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one afternoon last week, an all-white jury filed into the trial room of the Lawrenceburg, Tenn. courthouse and faced pink, plump Circuit Judge Joe Ingram. For two tense weeks, 25 Tennessee Negroes had been on trial, 23 of them charged with the attempted murder of four white policemen in the ill-famed Mink Slide race riot at Columbia (TIME, March 11). Now, after one hour and 53 minutes of deliberation, the verdict was in: two guilty; 23 not guilty. Exclaimed white Defense Attorney Maurice Weaver jubilantly: "A victory for Americanism...
Randolph Churchill, plump columnist-son of Winston, readied himself for a more Spartan venture than Beebe's. He was about to make a winter-long lecture tour of the U.S., in a new Lincoln, with one chauffeur and one secretary. Interviewed in Manhattan,. Journalist Churchill refused to comment on Elliott Roosevelt's observation (in As He Saw It) that "for young Churchill, conversation is strictly a unilateral operation." He also refused to comment on Sister Mary's rumored engagement to Belgium's Prince Charles. Said Journalist Churchill: "It's nobody's business. ... I think there should be five freedoms?Freedom...
...usual, the little Father needed to be translated. He meant his spiritual body, not his own plump, proper person. And in Divine lingo, spiritual body included the 2,000 white "angels" who live in Swiss "heavens" and believe Father's word that...
...some 16 years rotund, toothless George Herbert Naylor has worked for a wholesale grocer firm in Wisbech (rhymes with fizz peach), Cambridgeshire. For almost every one of those years his plump wife Lillian has borne him a child. George's wages are ?4 10s.. a week. His eldest daughters Marian (18) and Hazel (17) bring home some ?3 between them from jobs at local shops...
During the five years that he lived in the village of Sayan, plump, apple-cheeked Colin McPhee, 45, never succeeded in getting Balinese to like American music. But the ancient Oriental melodies which they beat from bronze gongs and piped from bamboo flutes won his Occidental ear. His Balinese memoirs, published this week (4 House in Bali, John Day, Asia Press; $4), tinkle with a swirling eddy of music for. religious rites, shadow plays and joyful cremations...