Word: wilmington
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About an hour later, elsewhere in the city, John Lawrence, Philadelphia bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal, was roused from sleep by the same callers. He refused to talk-at first cock's crow, anyway. At 6:45 that same morning, in Wilmington, Del., James T. Parks Jr., 28, business writer for the Wilmington evening Journal, arrived for work to find two FBI agents waiting for him. Parks saw no reason not to show the agents what they had come for: the notes that he had taken at the Bethlehem stockholders' meeting and the story that...
...boost (see THE NATION), the early morning urgency was a pretty highhanded use of the FBI. The three newsmen had indeed all attended the Bethlehem stockholders' meeting, but what they had reported was far from earth shaking. Two of the men-the AP's Linder and the Wilmington Journal's Parks-had put Bethlehem President Edmund F. Martin on record as opposing any price hike...
...Silliman Hillyer, 66, winner of the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and from 1937 to 1944 occupant of Harvard's prestigious Boylston Chair of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position previously held by such notables as John Quincy Adams and Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland; of a heart attack; in Wilmington, Del. A prolific novelist, essayist and critic, Hillyer was most at home in verse where he deftly combined elegance and gentle irony...
Delbert LeRoy True, pride of the anthropology department at the University of California at Los Angeles, is a hard-handed man of 37. Son of a lumberyard foreman in Wilmington, Calif., True as a boy was a fascinated fossil hunter and "hooked on California Indians." But when he graduated from high school in 1941, he had no money for college ("My family has always figured the hell with education"). True worked in a shipyard, served as an aerial-gunnery instructor in World War II, acquired a small avocado ranch in the Pauma Valley. In 1953 some U.C.L.A. anthropologists interviewed local...
When Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe tried out in Wilmington, Del., Star Claudette Colbert realized that the stage adaptation of Oriana Atkinson's Over at Uncle Joe's desperately needed doctoring. "Yet they were just applying poultices where a leg should have been amputated," Claudette recalled. "I asked the producers to close it then and do extensive rewrites-either that or let me out. One of them just turned to me and said, 'I didn't know you were a quitter.' " She stayed, and last week the show had its opening night in New York...