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...into the N.A.A.C.P., he was ousted as a junior high-school principal and sent to a tiny three-teacher elementary school. But he was not fired. He prospered over the years, was able to buy a neat six-room house and a six-acre orange and grapefruit grove at Mims (pop. 1,081), an Indian. River fruit-packing town 45 miles from Daytona Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: The Uninvited Guest | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

THOMAS W. HOYA '53, of Kirkland and Milwaukee; RICHARD E. JOHNSON '53, of Dunster and Galesburg, Ill.; DANIEL L. RITCHIE '54, of Lowell and China Grove. North Carolina (left to right above); and Paul D. Sheats '54, of Eliot and Chicago (not pictured) were re-elected last night to the Student Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Re-elected to Council After Lethargic Campaign | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

JOHN W. NICOLL Pacific Grove, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...people who kept it going-Sunday-school Teacher Mrs. Mertie Best ("a saint in a house dress") and Pastor Walter Jerome Wheeler. "How much nicer and more convenient it would be, say," he wrote, "if a church were located closer at hand. Perhaps in a grove of hemlocl where the cleared land descends toward the blue channel water; somewhere, wher the kindly Sunday-school teacher would not have so far to go . . . Last night th Farmer [Dirks] could contain himself m longer. He visited Mr. Wheeler, who said 'If a fund was started to build a small church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Columnist's Chapel | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Last week the citizens of Blooming Grove and Texans for miles around turned out to honor 39-year-old Jim Sewell. He came up from Austin with his wife Janet and their two-year-old son Jimmy to give the commencement address at the Consolidated High School. Next day, a big truck trailer was pulled up in front of the First State Bank for a speakers' platform. There were speeches and telegrams predicting that he would one day be governor. Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, who taught him grammar, said: "Jim, I'm wearing red shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: I Wish I Could Tell You | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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