Tennis Star Now Actress A Harlem Champion Breaks Into Film
Althea Gibson, famed American tennis champion from Harlem, makes her acting debut as a maid in The Horse Soldiers with Constance Towers and John Ford. She traveled worldwide as a tennis star and now tests for film roles, planning to pursue acting alongside music and an autobiography. She may return to tennis if acting does not take precedence.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
John Wayne
Wiliam Holden
John Ford
Althea Gibson
Harlem
Constance Towers
Gastonia Maintains Eighth Place for Building Permits
Gastonia remains eighth among North Carolina's 50 largest cities for yearly building permits. total new construction reached 4,681,000 in the first eight months, down from last year as no large permits were issued. Five permits in the past week totaled 30,000, including a wrecking permit for Sages Wrecking to demolish the Armiston Hotel where wrecking is already underway.
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Raymond Wallace
Wallace
Sages Wrecking Company
Charlotte
Arminston
Robert E. Caldwell
Edgefield Avenue
D. W. Dawn
East Park Drive
Ernest Barnes
Gable Street
Claude Moody
Adam & Penner
Mara Street
Lee Wood
Macedonia Baptist Church
West Garland Avenue
Highways And Politics Hard To Separate
Raleigh Governor Hodges sought to separate highway work from politics but the highway commission still intertwines with state races. Chairman Mel Broughton Jr. and Vice Chairman Ralph Howland are among commissioners rumored to seek governor or U.S. Senate posts, complicating Hodges prospects and showing politics remains embedded in highway appointments.
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Lynn Nisbet
Gazelle Bureau
Raleigh
Hodges
Highway Commission
J. M. Broughton Jr
Cal
William T. Joyner
United States
Broughton
Mel
Bic
Ralph Howland
Few States Employ Full-Time Education Science Advisers
STATE SCIENCE ADVISERS CHICAGO Only nine states have a full time State department of education science adviser or consultant, through nearly all have supervisors for school lunches, art, music, and physical education.
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