Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Church and Society issued a 56-page report urging white Christians in rich countries to meet the challenge of social changes. Their responsibility is to help colored people in poor countries realize their aspirations...
Died. Claude Grahame-White, 79, popular barnstorming pilot of aviation's infancy, Britain's first qualified pilot, who demonstrated the multiple uses of the airplane: he was the first to carry mail by air (letters from London to King George V at Windsor), the first to try night flying (boys trained their bicycle lights on the runway to help him take off; friends formed a procession of automobile lights along his route), the first to mount a machine gun on a plane and later use it in dogfights in World War I; in Nice, France...
...nine Negro youths were arrested for allegedly raping two itinerant white prostitutes in an Alabama freight car, were dragged through interminable trials that included all the cliches of racial conflict: openly bigoted judges, brutal cops, a sullen courthouse mob. The case aroused nationwide protests against the South's double standard of justice, encouraged the Communists to exploit the racial bitterness and provoke a bloody race incident in Alabama. After six years in prison, Roy Wright and three of his companions were finally freed after the state dropped charges. Under public pressure, four others were eventually paroled, and one escaped...
Mark Twain Tonight! The white-mustached, white-suited, cantankerous old hu' morist burns as pungently as his own stogie when Hal Holbrook brings him to life in a brilliant solo...
...Status Seekers, Packard (1) 2. For 2? Plain, Golden (2) 3. The Years With Ross, Thurber (3) 4. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (4) 5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (9 ) 6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7) 7. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (5) 8.Richard Nixon, Mazo (8) 9. Senator Joe McCarthy, Rovere (6) 10. The House of Intellect, Barzunx...