Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funds from any closed school to any new segregated private schools, to provide, a general kickoff appropriation of $100,000-and he knew the legislators were with him. Governor Faubus, a darkly handsome and composed man when enjoying the smooth of life, set a quiet, deliberate tone as he read his prepared address. Said he: "It must be remembered that the Federal Government is the creature of the states and possesses only those powers delegated to it by the states . . . We must either choose to defend our rights against those who would usurp them or else surrender." Without further...
...Sinatra. The picture was a smash, and so was Ernie. He got other parts, but nothing really big till a couple of producers came along, name of Hecht and Lancaster, who wanted to do a picture about a fat Italian butcher boy -a real sweet kid, but lonesome. Ernie read for the part, and he was in. This guy Ernie did not just play Marty; he was Marty, sitting around the corner saloon with his cronies, drinking beer and saying: "So waddayawanna do tonight...
...Buggy Whips. Like Curtice and Wilson, Donner was born in a small Midwestern town. His father was accountant for the only plant-a featherbone factory making corsets and buggy whips-in tiny (pop. 1,500) Three Oaks, Mich. Donner went regularly to the Congregational Sunday School, shied from athletics, read voraciously, mostly history. His life was orderly. Remembered a childhood friend last week: "He had a routine even as a boy. So much time for work, so much for play and so much for study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained his aged...
...Supreme Court Justice Shneor Cheshin read each question, Amos Hacham would painfully draw himself up, holding his breath, his body rigid. Then the answer would come suddenly, in a harsh, monotonous cry. He missed scarcely a question. When it was over, Amos was hands-down winner of the first prize - a grey-green, 2,000-year-old glass vase from a tomb at Beth Shearim. Runner-up was France's Simone Dumont, Baptist teacher and a publisher of children's books, who won an ancient silver shekel. Third prize, a gold coin commemorating the tenth anniversary of Israel...
...suggestion of Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, she started "On the Record," the next year began a monthly chitchat for the Ladies' Home Journal. By World War II, she was read across the U.S. (peak circulation: some 200 papers in 1941), feared in Government circles...