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...Lynchburg, Va.. girls from all-white Sweet Briar women's college picketed drugstores with segregated lunch counters, as six other white and Negro students, including two white girls from similarly fashionable Randolph Macon, began the second week of 30-day trespassing sentences for earlier sit-ins at the counters...
Powell's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances were Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, eleven Congressmen, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter Reuther's brother...
...Floyd Patterson. And in the democratic spirit of the times, one of the season's first emerald-glittering affairs was last week's opening of a new Schrafft's restaurant in the Royal Poinciana Plaza, an event of sufficient importance to attract Joseph P. Kennedy, William Randolph Hearst Jr., and Billy Graham...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...
...That Jazz. One of the Examiner's difficulties is a problem that rarely bothered William Randolph Hearst: journalistic responsibility and respectability. In its rip-roaring youth, the Examiner served as a proving ground for Hearst's journalistic shock tactics; it was one of the first U.S. papers to rush reporters to big out-of-town stories by chartered train. But as Hearst aged, the Examiner cooled into the journalistic pillar of his empire-a sober and respected daily that fed its subscribers nourishing doses of foreign, national and local news, frequently played without regard to Hearst prejudices...