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Fort Pitt had once been Pennsylvania's top brewer, but a strike had laid it low. Its big asset to Coleman and Siegel was a $1,800,000 loss that could be offset against profits if merged with a profitable company. With $1,500,000 in bank loans, they merged two profitable overcoat companies (owned by Siegel's family) with Fort Pitt, and wound up with control of Fort Pitt...
...down Norfolk's six Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools," led by Unitarian Minister James Brewer and Realtor Irving Truitt, plumped publicly for "a strong and complete public-school system"-and if necessary, gradually integrated. The committee's key point: no city can pretend to attract or hold business, industry or federal installations, e.g., the Norfolk Naval Base, with public schools closed. Next move...
...they lost valuable time by assigning it at first to a new female vocal group. Then the word got around that Roulette was recording Hula with Songstress Georgia Gibbs, and Coral executives decided that "we would have to come up with a big name, too." Their choice: Songstress Teresa Brewer. In the mad scramble that followed, Georgia beat Teresa into the record shops by one day, was further aided by the fact that she was able to sing the song on The Ed Sullivan Show c:;Iy two days after she recorded...
...room-mates reported her missing to Weld Hall two days later. "She was pretty sensitive," muttered the brewer's daughter from Milwaukee. "Maybe an incident at the mixer...
...credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher Basil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., he decided that Cabot Lodge was "soft on Communism" and that therefore he decided to move over and back Democratic Candidate John Kennedy. The day the Post's Kennedy-for-Senator editorial appeared, by Fox's account, Fox talked to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, multimillionaire father...