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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sooner had Ronald Davies arrived in Little Rock than he was deep in the historic integration case brought on by Governor Orval Faubus' defiance of the U.S. Government. Davies fully understood the delicacy of his situation: he kept to himself, left his Sam Peck Hotel room only to walk to the Federal Court Building across the street. Away from his friends and his family (he has two sons, three daughters), friendly, family-minded Ronald Davies began to understand for the first time what New York's famed Judge Harold Medina once said to him: a judge is alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VISITING JUDGE IN LITTLE ROCK: I'm Just One of a Couple of Hundred | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Small Point. In Fort Worth, after Sam Childers, 21, and his bride of four months "had words," he decided to spite her by using a 12-gauge shotgun to blast off his own toes, said in the hospital: "It wasn't a real argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1957 | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

...Sonny, you'd better get some more orders," the elderly postman threatened, "because Uncle Sam says I'm coming through...

Author: By George H. Watson jr., (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Faubus May Have Aided Forces of Integration | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

...Sam Halaby seems slated to open at fullback for the Crimson, with Stan Merkel playing behind him. Halaby has improved quite a bit since the first practices and looked good against Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yovicsin Works on Weak Defense In Preparation for Big Red Team | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

Weeds in the Corn. Back in the Ozark hills Uncle Sam Faubus unknowingly told, in just a few words, why Orval had done all he had done. In the little house near Greasy Creek, he turned to his wife and exclaimed: "Why, Orval is the second-most thing in the papers these days." Replied she: "Firstmost thing." "Yep," agreed Uncle Sam. "Well, that's the way Orval always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: What Orval Hath Wrought | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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