Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THREE hours after the U.S. District Court had issued an injunction against him, Arkansas' Governor Orval Eugene Faubus appeared on a state television network and, among other matters, delivered a lecture on magazine journalism. First he "invited" his audience to read the Sept. 20 issue of U.S. News & World Report, which carried a let-him-talk. question-and-answer interview with Faubus. Then he said: "The obviously prejudiced and false reports in TIME and Newsweek will not help the situation...
...Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil Blossom became the first-but by no ' means the last-spectator to fall sound asleep. Again, while addressing himself to another motion, Faubus Lawyer Walter Pope said his whole argument was in his brief, and someone had once told him that judges could read. Smiled Ronald Davies: "Yes, I am one of the judges who can read." Moments later the Faubusinspired motions were quietly and firmly overruled...
...little boy with a regular foghorn voice," recalls a cousin), the family moved to Blanchard, Wash., 70 miles north of Seattle, where his father (who died two years ago) became a locomotive engineer in a logging camp. Ethel Murrow, now nearing 80, was a frugal, hard-working Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow...
Ullin Leavell (rhymes with revel) was an obvious choice to oversee the Modern McGuffey. He heads the McGuffey Reading Clinic at the University of Virginia, where McGuffey himself taught for 28 years (1845-73). Leavell even owes his first name of Ullin to McGuffey. His parents were especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says...
...befits one of the most widely read authors in the U.S., Erskine Caldwell, 53, lives handsomely and high. Perched on a sheer-sloped San Francisco peak, his rented modernistic house is on the second-highest street in town. To get in the mood for his methodical 9-to-5 workday, Caldwell simply pulls down the shades to shut out the magnificent view. In the evenings Caldwell and his fourth wife dine out, often at Trader Henri's, a favored hangout of the beard-and-sandal Bohemian set. Says Caldwell: "I don't go for the atmosphere...