Word: waller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These little gems of solace and advice are produced by six Chicagoans of prominence whom Editor Malloy talked into counseling the trouble-smitten. The advisers: Judges Joseph Sabath and Justin F. McCarthy; Debutante Judy Waller; University of Chicago Coed Beata Mueller; Jessie Binford, "mother" of Chicago's Juvenile Court; and Mrs. Leo P. Cummings, mother of eleven. To do the anonymous but necessary paper work, Editor Malloy transplanted from his woman's page kindly little Mary Dougherty, a veteran of newspapering who once ran her own feature syndicate...
...band. It's devoted to a 19-year old girl named Betty Rand, who sings and plays a fine piano. What is really amazing is that in spite of all the devotees of Hazel Scott, Teddy Wilson, and Frankie Carle, here is actually someone who takes after Fats Waller. Betty hasn't got Waller's power or precision, nor has she any original ideas as yet, but I will gladly swap an hour of Hazel's doodlings for a minute of Betty's barrelhouse beat...
...Have you thought about some people are allowed a chance over and over again, then there are others allowed little chance some no chance at all," wrote Odell Waller. "I accidentally fell and some good people tried to help me. Others did everything they could against me so the governor and the coats dont no the true facts. In my case I worked hard from sunup until sundown trying to make a living for my family and it ended in death for me. You take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They...
...minutes later Odell Waller died in the electric chair in the Virginia State Penitentiary for killing his white landlord (TIME, July 6) over 50 sacks of wheat that Waller claimed were...
...State's leading law firm. Governor Colgate W. Darden Jr. granted stay after stay. The Richmond Times-Dispatch declared: "Add the fact that we are in a war for survival in which we are depending heavily for victory on the colored races, and the significance of the Waller case becomes clearer...