Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unto the Least of These. This week, with faith and patience, the army still marched on. In New York, Chicago, Peoria, San Francisco, Omaha, Richmond, Los Angeles-all over the U.S. and half around the world-tambourines rattled and brass bells tinkled in the annual Christmas campaign. Americans dropped pennies, nickels and dimes by the millions into Salvation Army kettles. The money would be used to buy 300,000 Christmas dinners for the down & out, 450,000 presents for children, packages for the aged, the poor in hospitals, and the inmates of jails...
Also named were Gene Raser Kearney '51, of Richmond, Mass., and Adams House, as Associate Managing Editor; Peter Benjamin Taub '51, of Larchmont, N.Y., and Lowell House, as Sports Editor, Norman Eldridge Nichols '51, of Muskegon, Mich., and Eliot House, as Advertising Manager...
University Club Blues vs. Varsity B Team: Symmes (H), defeated Kouman, 3-1; Lee defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Wood (H) defeated Levin, 3-2; Roberts defeated Hunt (H), 3-0; Richmond defeated Foss...
Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...
Died. Luther ("Bill," "Bojangles") Robinson, 71, longtime master of old-school (non-acrobatic) tap dancers; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Grandson of a slave, Robinson ran away from his home-town Richmond at eight, shined shoes, worked as stableboy and waiter, danced for nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely...