Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there, and the "red tartan dinner jacket" that Stevenson wore is not a dinner jacket but a dilapidated spare coat. You say "with only his really good friends in politics invited." There were two people for supper at his house that night: Stevenson and a friend from out of town, George Ball. Stevenson's law partner Bill Wirtz and his wife arrived about 10 o'clock; later in the evening Stevenson's sister, Mrs. Ives, and a family friend arrived. These people are hardly described by your language "his really good friends in politics." For part...
...mixed but, under city ordinance, not the audience, came 4,000 whites one evening last week to hear a variety troupe one-nighting through the South with Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole featured. For the musky-voiced baritone, born Nathaniel Adams Coles in Montgomery, this was almost a home-town audience; he spiced Autumn Leaves with an extra lilt, then crooned into Little Girl. With the second chorus came pandemonium...
...Backbone." Melvin Wilhelm is a lean, saddle-brown man who has lived all of his 50 years on Edwards Plateau and runs a sheep and cattle ranch near the little town of Menard (pop. 2,000). Last week Wilhelm looked out across the gaunt and tortured hills of his range and stubbornly...
...hero worship heaped upon him by the Indian masses. Admirers who bend to touch his sandaled feet are often rewarded with a gentle kick; officials who prepare fancy receptions may find themselves denounced as "wasters of the people's time and money." Last week in the modest farming town of Hubli, in southwestern India, Nehru sat contentedly on a bamboo-railed platform, swatting flies while the chairman introduced him to the crowd of 2,000. Glowingly, the speaker described the guest of honor as "a man of great heart and unsurpassed wisdom...
Until 1939 Hillsboro never really thought of maintaining separate Negro and white schools. But that year, when Webster was jammed to capacity, the board of education decided to solve the problem by quietly packing all Negro pupils off to the ramshackle Lincoln elementary school on the east side of town. For 15 years no one protested. Then came the Supreme Court's historic decision. Negro parents living nearer Webster than Lincoln began demanding that Webster admit their children. The board's answer: it redistricted the whole town, assigned two widely separated Negro neighborhoods to all-Negro Lincoln...