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...petition filed with the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Wallace, a Negro, said that no member of his race could receive a fair trial in a Farmville court. The Virginia town is the seat of Prince Edward County, which closed its public schools in 1959 when a court ordered them to integrate...
...PARKS Richmond...
Linking North & South. Some lines prosper because of quirks of nature or of men. The biggest, busiest and most profitable of the bridge roads is the 129-year-old Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, whose 117-mile main line between Washington and Richmond-protected from competition in earlier decades by its part-owner, the state of Virginia-is still the only coastal link between North and South. All North-South traffic takes the R.F. & P.; over it daily thunder 23 passenger trains and ten freights bound from one to another of the six Class I roads (the Pennsy, the Southern...
...Police the Prose. Such maxims honed the pens of such famed Lambuth protégés as Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Novelist Budd Schulberg, Poets Richard Eberhart and Richmond Lattimore. The book was long out of print when Lambuth died in 1948, but old grads treasured old copies, and not long ago Adman S. Heagan Bayles ('33) lovingly printed a new edition of 1,000 to police the prose at his Manhattan agency, Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles. This fall, courtesy of the ad agency rather than the English department, the Dartmouth business school joyfully revived The Golden Book...
Pucker Up & Blow. The Jug Band's anchor man is Fritz Richmond, 24, a shaggy, red-haired bean pole who plays washtub, stovepipe and jug. He is so immersed in washtub playing that once, while in the Army, he got carried away and played a Quonset hut by nailing the door shut, stringing a wire from the doorknob to the tip of a 10-ft. pole and strumming. "It made a deep, very deep sound," he says, lost in wonder at the effect. His present instrument is a $2.49 Sears, Roebuck washtub, but metal fatigue forces...