Word: zebulon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a weekend spent with his folks in Zebulon, N.C.. Margaret Truman, 32, returned to Manhattan with 43-year-old E. Clifton Daniel Jr., to be met by newsmen insistent for word of romance from them. Grinning, but ducking the big question, they taxied away together. Half an hour later, in a hastily called press conference in Independence, Mo., Papa Harry Truman gave out the happy word that Margaret was engaged to marry "Cliff" Daniel, onetime London and Moscow cor respondent and now assistant foreign editor of The New York Times. Papa Harry not only gave them his blessing...
Since he escaped trial in 1949 with eleven other Communist Party bosses (all convicted) because two court-appointed doctors said his heart was too weak to stand the courtroom ordeal, Party Chairman William Zebulon Foster, the twelfth and biggest U.S. Communist, has been busy writing and speechmaking. His labors have taken him on two strenuous cross-country trips. Last week, after doctors re-examined him and found that his cardiovascular condition was no better, Foster, now 72, won another continuance, thus removing all likelihood that he will ever stand trial...
Reporter Shannon's articles, running in the Journal this week, began with Zebulon High School in Pike County, an unkempt building with creaking steps and crumbling plaster, and a rusty bell without a clapper. Close by stood its "lunchroom " a former Army barracks that sagged and leaned dangerously. Through 28 Georgia counties Reporter Shannon came upon a similar pattern of dirt and decay-"a theme," she wrote, "that plays almost like a broken record . . . over & over & over . . . in unfortunate Georgia schools...