NAACP leader says youths protest discrimination nationwide
Thurgood Marshall told a St Paul dinner that young Negroes have had it with the entire system of discrimination and will not tolerate it. He cited slow progress on desegregation and linked changes abroad to pressure at home while Roy Wilkins outlined convention issues on voting rights, school desegregation, and job opportunities.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
St. Paul and Minneapolis
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Roy Wilkins
Emmys Award Olivier Bergman and Stack in TV debut
Hollywood AP reports Sir Laurence Olivier Ingrid Bergman and Robert Stack won the top TV Emmy awards in their first television appearance. Harry Belafonte became the first Black performer to win an Emmy while Jackie Gleason's former second placed as a notable moment.
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Sir Laurence Olivier
Ingrid Bergman
Robert Stack
Harry Belafonte
Jackie Gleason
Arnaz
Stack
Jane Wyatt
Anderson
Belafonte
Fred Astaire
Astaire
Fred
Carney
Danny Thomas
Jack Benny
Red Skelton
Art Carney
New York
Playhouse 90
CBS
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Rod Serling
8 000 Jaycees Whoop It Up at Convention
ST LOUIS AP The 40th annual Junior Chamber of Commerce convention opened with a lively party along the Mississippi riverfront. About 8 000 delegates gathered for a get acquainted event as Vice President Nixon prepared to speak. The revelry included a block long open air bar and street antics by multiple delegations. A Florida delegate with a live alligator and a Nevada group with six shooters drew police attention. Some delegates faced aspirin shortage at a downtown drugstore amid the festivities.
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ST. Louis
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Richard M. Nixon
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Florida
Nevada
Road Crew Finds Civil War Relics in Petersburg
Petersburg road widening uncovers 30 shells from six to 18 inches left by Union forces during the Siege of Petersburg. Army officials warn the shells may still be dangerous.
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Petersburg
East Bank Street
Globe trotting congressmen expense accounts debate
A House panel backs a proposal to publish overseas expense accounts of traveling senators and representatives yearly in the Congressional Record. The amendment, part of the annual $129.7 million legislative bill, would reveal detailed costs and is tied to earlier failed House action. Senators Williams and Smith sponsor the measure. The debate centers on transparency and party disagreements. Grace's father John B. Kelly Sr., 70, dies in Philadelphia.
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Senate
Congress
House
John J. Williams
R-Del
Margaret Chase Smith
Rmaine
Grace
Philadelphia
John B. Kelly Sr
Monaco
Monsignor Tiernan Dies, Army Chaplain Leader
Msgr. L. Curtis Tiernan, 75, chief of Army chaplains in Europe during World War II, died Monday in Kansas City. A World War I and II veteran, he retired in 1948 and had suffered from a heart ailment.
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L. Curtis Tiernan
Europe
Tiernan
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