Word: proprietor
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...Holdouts. Choosing not to comply was Stewart Gammill Jr., proprietor of the city's third largest hotel, the Robert E. Lee, who ordered the hotel's Confederate flag struck and put up a sign: CLOSED IN DESPAIR. CIVIL RIGHTS BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Two days later, Gammill announced that henceforth the Robert E. Lee was a private club open to members only. A Richmond, Va., steakhouse also turned private, and restaurants in Charlottesville, Va., and Durham, N.C., and a Williamston, N.C., theater closed their doors for good rather than comply...
...down in the rolling pine hills and cotton-rich valley bottoms of northeastern Mississippi, 80 miles from Memphis, Tenn., named its county seat Jefferson, and peopled its 2,400 sq. mi. with 15,611 residents-"Whites, 6,298; Negroes, 9,313. William Faulkner, sole owner and proprietor...
Expected Tolerance. It was this sort of talk that started James Davis on his campaign to vary Atlanta's newspaper conversation. He found some willing segregationist cohorts, among them Roscoe Pickett, who is now Georgia's Republican national committeeman, and Lester Maddox, proprietor of an Atlanta fried-chicken joint called the Pickrick. From the Journal, Davis and company lured Associate Editor Luke Greene, who had served 24 years on that paper without ever quite approving its editorial approach. "I have always been a conservative," said Greene, who was appointed Times editor...
Under normal circumstances, the 238,000 subscribers to Show Magazine would be getting their copies of the July issue next week. But circumstances have seldom been normal on Show, and there is not going to be any July issue. Last week Show's millionaire proprietor, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, paid $3,000 for an ad in the New York Times to explain...
Away from the piano, her life is even richer. She is founder and proprietor of a foundation for the rehabilitation of down-and-out jazzmen, and she runs a Manhattan thrift shop for the foundation's benefit. Musicians who are doing well drop by with contributions nearly every day, and turning the merchandise into cash can sometimes tax even the devotion of Mary Lou. Only recently, Louis Armstrong's wife donated 100 pairs of size 41 shoes; the Duke donated a hand-painted pool stick and a mink...