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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing first doubles, Weld and Bowditch had a tight match with Brechner and Anderson, winning by 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. Behind 1-3 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair won three straight games and, with both their powerful services clicking beautifully, held on to break Brechner's service in the fourteenth game for the match...
Just 40 minutes later, Katterman came back in the 880 and set such a withering pace that he was all alone at the finish. His time, the new meet mark, was a magnificent...
...zest to his collecting, Colonel Carter has had 863 TIME covers autographed by the cover subjects. Before he is through, he is certain he will have a complete set of all past TIME issues. But the autograph collection will be another matter. Some 800 of the subjects of TIME'S covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti...
...with courage and dignity in accepting token integration as inevitable (TIME, Feb. 9), staked his power on a new program drawn up by a committee headed by Lynchburg's Senator Mosby G. Perrow Jr. The key bill would return pupil placement to local school boards, subject to rules set by the state board of education. In the final vote, minutes after Appomattox' Moses waved the picture of Lee, the Almond forces carried the day by 21-18. The house passed the senate version...
...first big, well-planned highway system; statewide high school debates focused on the need for good school libraries, got them going; extension service teachers organized part-time refresher courses for country doctors, inspired three medical schools (North Carolina U., Duke and Wake Forest); a community drama bureau set up three permanent historical dramas, e.g., The Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island, which yearly lure thousands of tourists for a night's pageantry. The community music bureau whipped up such interest that the North Carolina Symphony annually barnstorms the whole state; the Institute of Government became the adviser to every level...