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JACK WRIGHT Shreveport...
When he was seven, Thomas Adrian Sands, scrawny, black-haired son of a Russian-born piano player, used to sit at the radio on a little farm near Shreveport, La. and listen to the moaning and wailing of his favorite hillbillies. "Mamma," he would cry out to Grace Sands, "it's Jimmy Davis! Mamma, it's Harmie Smith! Listen to the guitars. Oh, Mamma, if only I could have a guitar, I'd be so happy." Grace Sands went out one day and made a $10 down payment on a $65 guitar. Tommy taught himself to play...
Having a month ago passed a resolution endorsing segregation in the public schools, the school board of Louisiana's Bossier Parish (just across the Red River from Shreveport) took another step toward the preservation of its most cherished tradition. Last week it banned from all nine high-school libraries TIME, LIFE and Look, accused the magazines of "waging a systematic campaign to prejudice and inflame the American people against the South by presenting in their columns biased and distorted views on the institution of segregation of races in our schools." To make doubly sure that no pupil would ever...
...other story happened years later when Lawyer Marshall was in a small Mississippi town, waiting for a train to Shreveport...
...Dallas Eagles of the Texas League (for which he paid a record $500,000 in 1949), named Minor League Executive of the Year in 1953 for his partially successful fight to give the minor leagues a larger voice in making baseball rules; of a heart ailment; in Shreveport...