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...hundred miles to the northwest, little Ozark (pop. 1,757), where racial conflict was unknown, had integrated its high school without a hint of protest. But the sparks from Little Rock soon landed and flared: a Negro girl was hit with a clothes hanger; a boy was struck in the back with a book-and a white motorist tried to run down two Negro children as they walked home from school. Integration was suspended, and Miss Elizabeth Burrow, half owner of the weekly Ozark Spectator, dying of throat cancer, wrote to her townspeople: "Here's a malignancy worse than...
...narrator, Ed Murrow offered two reasons for Welles's chilling success: 1) the recent concern over Munich had badly spooked the U.S. public and 2), Halloween merely served to intensify man's "instinctive terror of the great unknown...
...Herald Tribune's unknown quantity, to many staffers, is still Publisher Reid, a portentously high-minded young man who sincerely believes that "the Trib is one of the world's most important papers"-yet must take the blame for much in the recent oast that has made it merely trivial. Even last week, as Tribmen spoke earnestly of their plans for a better paper, radio commercials and full-page ads for a new circulation-boosting Tangle Towns contest struck a dissonant note. Nevertheless, the decision to refinance and remold the Herald Tribune argued powerfully that young Brownie Reid...
...amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just as he began to get his game under control, Robbins found himself in the finals, matched with his Walker Cup teammate, Dr. Frank ("Bud") Taylor, 40, a Pomona, Calif. dentist...
...discovery -that Michael Ventris, British architect and cryptographer, broke Linear B, announced that its 87 "signs" closely paralleled Greek syllables (TIME, April 19, 1954). But what about Linear A? Even Ventris, who died in 1956 at 34, thought that the language on the tablets must be Minoan, now completely unknown...