Firpo Dies at 65 Still Convinced He Beat Dempsey
Luis Angel Firpo, the Argentine heavyweight known as the Wild Bull of the Pampas, died at 65 in Buenos Aires. He lingered on the 1923 Polo Grounds bout where Dempsey was knocked out of the ring, insisting he deserved the title despite two subsequent losses in the United States.
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Luis Angel Firpo
Firpo
Pampas
Luis Firpo
Dempsey
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Jack
Polo Grounds
United States
Arturo Godoy
Godoy
Closed Meeting At Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Greensboro report notes visitors tagged with red ribbons by the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church during a closed congregational meeting. A July 17 action distributed a bogus Knights of Columbus oath denounced 47 years ago, prompting demands for apology and possible legal action. Journalist Douglas Kerr from the Greensboro Daily News was among tagged visitors.
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Greensboro
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Knights of Columbus
William L. Bennett
Knights
Douglas Kerr
Greensboro Daily News
Kerr
Bennett
Bataan Death March Survivors Plan Fort Myers Reunion
Fort Myers veterans recall the Bataan death march as a reunion draws survivors from as far as California for August 12 to 14. Dan C. Irwin and three others recall 1942 surrender of about 10 000 U S servicemen and the deaths en route to prison camps leaving about 4 500 alive at war’s end.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Bataan
Dan C. Irwin
California
Irwin
U.S
Philippine Islands
Eisenhower Returns to White House After Newport Vacation
President Eisenhower resumes duties at the White House after a month in Newport Rhode Island. He traveled with his family including four grandchildren aboard a cabin cruiser to Quonset Point and flew to Andrews Air Force Base. The homecoming featured large crowds and water salutes but no official greeting.
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Eisenhower
Newport
R. I
White House
Capital
Congress
Air Force
Andrews Air Force Base
Chamber of Commerce
Fort Adams
Quonset Point Naval Air Station
Broadway Columnist Danton Walker Dies at 61
Broadway columnist for the New York Daily News, Danton Walker, died at Cape Cod Hospital after a heart attack suffered while vacationing in Provincetown. A native of Atlanta, he was 61 and had written the Broadway column since 1937 after a long News career starting in 1923.
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Hyannis
Mass
Danton Walker
New York Daily News
Cape Cod Hospital
Walker
Provincetown
Atlanta
Daily News
News
Financial News
Lily Pons
Kneel In Campaign Begins with Atlanta Church Visits
Negro college students launched a coordinated kneel in campaign by attending six white Protestant churches in Atlanta. Twenty five students, joined by white peers, visited First Baptist Druid Hills Baptist First Presbyterian St Mark Methodist Grace Methodist and the Episcopal Cathedral of St Philip. No major incidents reported. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. noted warm reception suggests southerners may welcome church moral renewal on race.
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Atlanta
South
Georgia
First Baptist
Druid Hills
First Presbyterian
Exchange Students Accused of Anti Soviet Activity
Moscow reports accuse Edwin Morrell and four others of spreading anti Communist literature and seeking Soviet secrets. Morrell says the only newspapers in his room were Time and the New York Times and denies espionage claims.
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Moscow
Komsomol Pravda
Edwin Morrell
Moscow University
Morrell
Soviet Union
Salt Lake City
Utah
Time
New York Times
Trud
Autos Kill Many in North Carolina Weekend
The Associated Press reports a deadly weekend in North Carolina with at least 17 fatalities from automobile crashes and related incidents. Victims include William G. Blackwelder and his son Danny in a Mooresville collision, several pedestrians such as Raymond Mercer Chadbourn James Green and Clyde Jackson, and numerous collision victims across towns including Fuquay Varina High Point Cherry Point Hillsboro Medlin and Shallotte.
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William G. Blackwelder
Danny
Statesville
Mooresville
Raymond Eugene Mercer
Rt. 1
Chadbourn
James J. Green
Halifax
Clyde Jackson
Vanceboro
Lonnie Joe Dean
Rt. 2
Fuquay
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Hickory
Ray Clement McDaniel
Rhodshiss
Goody's
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