Word: lynchburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were tears of triumph. By the time Arthur was eight, he was fascinated by tennis. On a salary of $2,400 a year, the elder Ashe was hard pressed to afford $30 rackets. Life became a good deal easier after Arthur met R. Walter Johnson, a Negro doctor from Lynchburg, Va., whose avocation was encouraging promising young Negro tennis players. Years before, Dr. Johnson had befriended a girl from Harlem named Althea Gibson and started her climb to two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Impressed by Arthur's raw talent, Dr. Johnson started him on the junior tournament...
...outraged by the fact that your "Tragedy at Lynchburg" [Dec. 29] article totally neglected to put even the slightest blame for what happened on the owner of the German shepherd dogs. Dog ownership carries with it a responsibility not unlike that of parenthood, and since TIME was so careful to point out that latter responsibility in a recent Essay, how could you have failed to recognize that Mr. Ernest G. Floyd's irresponsibility was the true cause of this tragedy...
...limb until he was dangling about four feet above the stream. Thinking him safe, and unable to fend off the dogs, Mrs. Goodman ran back to the house and tele phoned her husband Eugene, 26, a self-employed exterminator who was working part time in a market at nearby Lynchburg. Goodman sped home in his pickup truck, found his wife hysterical and barely capable of pointing out to him the area where she had last seen Gene. Thrashing wildly down the hill and shouting his sons' names as he ran, Goodman was brought up short by a horrible sight...
Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She had her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
Carter Glass III responded as expected. In identical editorials in both papers, he wrote: "Allegedly in the cause of brotherhood, a group of Lynchburg organizations and individuals have issued an open invitation to racial agitators to come into the city of Lynchburg and attack the Lynchburg newspapers as well as other local institutions." As for the obituaries, wrote Glass, it is a well-known fact that Negroes do not want "free" death notices but "integrated" ones. Glass does not intend to desegregate death in Lynchburg...