Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweltering summer day in 1959, a pedestrian waited impatiently to cross a street in downtown Richmond, Va., while a car blocked the intersection. The driver, busily chatting with a friend out the window, would not move on. His patience exhausted, the pedestrian finally bolted across the hood of the auto. Unfortunately for him, the driver turned out to be an off-duty policeman who promptly haled him to court, where he was charged with malicious mischief and fined...
James Jackson Kilpatrick, the fiercely individualistic editor of the Richmond News Leader, got wind of the arrest, and he was outraged. As Kilpatrick sees it, part of a newspaper's job is to do its community a "very real and special service by poking fun and spoofing the hell out of despots on the bench." He ran an editorial asking for contributions to a Beadle Bumble Fund.* "The object of this fund," he wrote, "is to deflate an occasional overblown bureaucrat, to unstuff a few stuffed shirts and to promote the repeal of foolish and needless laws. There...
...Richmond homeowner convicted of trapping animals inside the city limits. His crime: he had rounded up a few squirrels when they began to overrun his lawn, then deposited them unharmed in the countryside. ≫ A Charlottesville painter who had been found guilty of violating the Sabbath blue laws. He had been repainting the white lines of a grocery store's parking lot on Sunday, the only day the lot was free of cars. ≫ A woman who had received a parking ticket for leaving her Volkswagen more than twelve inches from the curb. All the nearby larger cars, which...
...weeks rounded up enough books, cigarettes, candy, peanuts and soap to fill 3,500 cartons. Boston's Christmas Festival Committee, which is usually preoccupied with decorating the Common in late fall, raised $3,000 to buy gift packages from the city's fanciest grocer, S.S. Pierce. In Richmond, a neighborhood civic association passed the hat, bought 1,656 fruitcakes. A Charleston, W. Va., record-store owner asked teen-agers for their old records, was deluged with 3,300 in one week...
After a 3-2 defeat by Wesleyan's John Logan in the quarter finals. Wickens faced Rod Richmond of Hofstra in the consolation. At the end of the regulation six minutes, the two were tied 3-3: after an overtime period, they were deadlocked 4-4, but a referee's decision gave Wickens the win. He then almost upset Bob Drebenstedt of Oklahoma State in another consolation before losing 2-1 and settling for fourth place...