Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town blossomed with posters saying: "Honor-Pride-Save the Whites!" and "Save Your Kids! Prevent Race Riots, Murder, Dynamitings and Hangings!" Assistant School Superintendent W. H. Oliver called for police protection after a paper fireball was thrown, burning, on his front porch. Having passed safely through registration day, Nashville is now braced for anything. Says Superintendent Bass: "Our board members are shaking in their boots. There's all sorts of submerged opposition to this." Added a Negro lawyer: "With a lunatic like Kasper around, anything can happen...
...attended last year finally announced that they would be back. The day passed without incident. Says Principal W. D. Human, who took over from last year's harassed Principal D. J. Brittain, now on a fellowship at New York University: "Everyone I've talked to in town, and I've talked to a great many, expressed hope for a normal and successful school year...
...spite of one Ku Klux Klan cross-burning a few miles outside of town, Charlotte, N.C. (pop. 158,800) quietly accepted the news that four Negroes will be distributed through the two junior and two senior high schools. Greensboro and Winston-Salem, the other cities that announced they would integrate simultaneously with Charlotte (TIME, Aug. 5), have also avoided any ominous reaction. In all three communities, officials hope that their tiny concession to the U.S. Supreme Court will keep the federal courts at bay, serve as a sort of inoculation against any large-scale integration...
...repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola) to Florida's Senator George A. Smathers of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, accusing Columbia Records' bearded pop A & R chief Mitch Miller of self-confessed payolatizing...
...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...