Death Claims Rockefeller At Ace Of 86
John D. Rockefeller Jr., famed philanthropist and head of a wealth dynasty, died in a Tucson hospital at 85 from pneumonia and heart strain. The humanitarian funded welfare and cultural projects with gifts totaling over 390 million dollars. He studied at Brown, married Abby Aldrich, then Martha Baird Allen, and had six children. He had long urged fair labor conditions and an eight hour day before his death.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr
Rockefeller
Standard Oil Co
Rockefellers
Rockefeller Foundation
General Education Board
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Brown University
Abby Greene Aldrich
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Abby
John D. T
Nelson
Laurance
Winthrop
David
Martha Baird Allen
Providence
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Eartha Kitt to Be June Bride in Quiet Beverly Hills Ceremony
LAS VEGAS AP Eartha Kitt 30 and Bill McDonald 30 obtained a marriage license in Los Angeles. They plan to wed June 9 at her parents home with a long tour ahead. Eartha from South Carolina to Harlem to stardom and McDonald, white, served in Korea earning a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. They aim to settle in Beverly Hills and start a family after engagements.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Eartha Kitt
Bill McDonald
Los Angeles
McDonald
Eartha
Bill
Columbia
S.C
Harlem
Katherine Dunham
Paris
Recordings
Hollywood
Broadway
Ojai
Calif
University of California
Korea
Beverly Hills
William McDonald
James McDonald
Protest at Saint Benedicts College over housing plan
About 490 of 650 students at St Benedict's College staged a 45 minute sit down in the dining hall Wednesday night to protest the fall term room assignments Seniors usually come first while freshmen receive housing first Some upperclassmen fear insufficient on campus housing and may seek off campus quarters Rev Hilary Heim dean of students said no special reason for reversal and the administration contemplates no revisions to the schedule.
To Face Charge On False Bomb Report
Robert C Clark 53 of Raytown Mo was ordered held for federal grand jury action on a charge of making a false bomb report. He was released on 500 bond after a hearing at Midway Airport where a Trans World Airlines clerk testified he asked about baggage and Clark replied with a bag containing a bomb. He said the remark was aimed at his nephew James B Drake a Chicago engineer and the word bomb referred to a toupee to be reconditioned.
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Chicago
Robert C Clark
Raytown, Mo
U. S
Audrey Counihan
Trans World Airlines l
Midway Airport
Clark
Telestype Corp
James B. Drake
Thad Brooks
Lonnie Chaney
Tallulah
Shelby, Miss
Pace
Brooks
Martin Luther King
Atlanta
New York
King
Negroes Gain Ground In Durham Sit-Ins
In Durham North Carolina a three step plan for lunch counter integration was presented amid mass arrests of sit in demonstrators. The plan pauses before starting integrated service and aims for full integration after public acceptance. Local and national figures discuss sit ins and desegregation efforts across the South.
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Durham
N. C
Vicksburg
Miss
Jewell Pace
Episcopal Church
North Carolina
Benson Attacks New Farm Proposal as Servitude
In Chicago Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson denounces the Democratic Farm Policy Advisory Committee plan as a sellout to servitude. He argues the return to rigid price supports at parity would recreate past farm problems and criticizes farmers and the Eisenhower administration for the high federal farm program costs.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Democratic Farm Policy Advisory Committee
Benson
National Restaurant Assn
Eisenhower
Congress
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