Word: dodson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...right more immediately deep er than that of politics or race . . . .that is, a human right, the right of a man to think and feel honestly." In Chicago, a mural on a ghetto wall glowers and glows at passersby in pride and in challenge. Or, hear Owen Dodson...
Pray for Rain. The inspectors were no more understanding at the First State Bank of Dodson, which simply followed that Panhandle community in decline, or at Big Lake, an oil and ranch town on the flatlands of West Texas, where billboards exhort passers-by to "pray for rain." Horace B. Rees, 64, president of the Big Lake State Bank, "let his heart overload his sense." as one customer says, and tried to lure industry to the town by loaning seed capital to dubious ventures. Big Lake, however, was deprived of banking services for only a week. Three groups...
...Alaskan bush pilot had to be resourceful as well as rugged. N.C.A. Veteran Jim Dodson remembers delivering babies on two separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
Died. Sir Gerald Dodson, 82, Recorder of London (senior judge at Old Bailey criminal court) from 1937 to 1959 and one of Britain's wittiest justices; of leukemia; in London. Among his shafts: he told a defendant claiming to have a split personality, "Both of you will have to go to prison for 18 months," advised a man accused of threatening to shoot a girl because she would not go out with him, "You can't make love at the point of a revolver with any success," and informed a witness claiming that in Nigeria a man could...
Free at last, Dodson and Eckes began a four-day trek back to Danang. Once the enemy passed within three feet of them while they crouched in 6-ft.-tall elephant grass; another time a herd of buffalo chased them. For sustenance, they had the remains of a $16 bag of candy they had bought. Finally they spotted a U.S. C-130 Hercules transport landing behind a ridge and arrived at a South Vietnamese army compound at An Hoa, 20 miles south of Danang-unshaven and tangle-haired, each 30 lbs. lighter, their feet blistered. Grunted a sergeant as they...