Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood manners & morals (TIME...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood manners & morals (TIME...
When mild-mannered Gregory Swanson, a 24-year-old Negro attorney from Martinsville, Va., tried to register as a graduate student in the University of Virginia's law school, the university said no. Officials explained that the Virginia constitution forbids it, ignored the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that Negroes must be admitted to white colleges when there are no equal facilities for Negroes. Attorney Swanson went to court...
...Charlottesville last week, a three-judge federal court decided that since Swanson could not find law courses in the State's Negro college, Virginia must admit him. University officials planned no appeal. Attorney Gregory Swanson will be the first Negro to enter the University of Virginia since Thomas Jefferson founded it 125 years...
Sunset Boulevard. How a faded movie star (Gloria Swanson) attempts a comeback with the help of her kept man (William Holden); a sardonic commentary on Hollywood's manners & morals (TIME...