Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred feet long, six hundred feet high and six feet wide," and the statement was only a slight exaggeration. What gave special relish to the job for Nat Owings was that in 32 years of designing, including work on such large-scale projects as Oak Ridge, Tenn., Moroccan airbases, and Crown Zellerbach's new building in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 7), he had never built a house...
Drawing on the album's conscientious liner notes, Down Beat explained that the late Pianist Hammer was a shy fellow from Glen Springs, Ala., who committed his art to posterity only once, at a recording session in Nashville, Tenn. in 1956. Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that...
Died. John Randolph Neal, 83, who precipitated the Dayton, Tenn. "monkey trial" in 1925 by urging Teacher John Scopes to defy state law and teach Darwin's evolution, served as Scopes's chief counsel (though overshadowed by the showmanship of his famed colleague Clarence Darrow), lost the case (Scopes was fined $100) but won the war; in Rockwood, Tenn...
...Daniel Del Solar '63, of Mower Hall and Santa Monica, Cal.; Gary M. Grikscheit '63, of Straus Hall and Birmingham; William C. Hodge '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Springfield, Ohio;; Alfred J. Kahn '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Stephen A. Keese '63, of Stoughton Hall and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Phillip L. Stotter '63, of Greenough Hall and South River, N.J.; David W. Walker '63, of Thayer Hall and Canaan, N.Y.; and Ronald H. Winston '63, of Matthews Hall and Scarsdale...
...last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...