Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another in some reasonably harmonious order. One of the most important changes on the U.S. scene in September 1955, as the nation's children trooped back to school, was the astounding progress of racial desegregation. In Kansas City, Mo. and Oklahoma City, in Oak Ridge, and Charleston, W. Va., white and Negro children for the first time sat together in classrooms. This simple fact, part of a vast and complex social revolution, resulted from a legal victory: the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions of May 17, 1954 and May 31, 1955, holding segregated schools contrary to the 14th...
GENE DICKEY LEON E. TESTER W. M. HENDRICKSON Chincoteague, Va...
...Four American Baptist clergymen on a tour of Russia left for home "impressed [by] the enthusiasm and sincerity" of Russian churchgoers and by "the surprising number of young men and women in the churches." Said the Rev. Theodore F. Adams of the First Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., president of the World Baptist Alliance (TIME, Aug. 1): "Of course, they do not have religious freedom the way we know it, but they certainly have full freedom of worship...
Died. Fiske Kimball, 66, longtime (1925-55) director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, restorer of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and Robert E. Lee's Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
Dropshot. In Washington, while helicopting three soldier-patients from Fort Lee, Va. to Walter Reed Hospital, Chief Warrant Officer Willie H. Windham lost his bearings, set down on a city tennis court, asked directions from startled players, whirled on his way without ever awakening his passengers...