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...With this pipe I can lean over a typewriter and smoke won't get in my eyes." A pipe smoker of more regular habit, Correspondent Dudley Doust collected material on Bowman Gray and R. J. Reynolds during a 2½ week visit to Winston-Salem, N.C., was strafed so steadily with fresh cigarettes that he puffed down about a pack a day - "more than I've smoked since we made roll-your-owns out of cattails when I was a kid in Syracuse, New York." If the men who worked on TIME'S cover story are something...
Reaching a Verdict. In Winston-Salem, N.C., a woman juror stalked out of the jury room, snatched her scarf and handbag, told Judge Robert Gambrill: "There was so much talking, fussing and carrying on that I've had all I want of it." Scratching the Surface. In Minneapolis, Municipal Judge Tom Bergin and Patrolman Robert Lyons collided in their cars on their way to a police school on traffic safety...
...loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming...
Under these laws, without court pressure, three cities (Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro) integrated the Deep South's first eleven Negro pupils in the fall...
...school integration may well be hastened by industrial integration. In Winston-Salem, Western Electric has hired Negro machinists. In Charlotte, Douglas Aircraft employs Negro engineers and draftsmen. In Greensboro, where Burlington Industries (textiles) recently took on a Negro chemist, a survey of 402 firms showed that 53 intend to hire strictly on the basis of merit, regardless of race; another 114 said they will hire on merit alone for some jobs. For the Deep South this represents progress. Said one industrialist: "No, I do not have an integrated plant. But check me in a year-the answer may be different...