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Poor Reception. In Memphis, Tenn., Peggy Roberson won a divorce after telling the court that when she inadvertently blocked her husband's view of the TV screen, he "threw a chair across the room, struck me, pulled me into the bathroom and held my head under water...
Walter Coulson, of Lawrence and Lowell House; Frederick Francis Lamont, Jr., of Trenton, New Jersey and Adams House; Stanley Joseph Friedman, of Brooklyn and Adams House; Oliver Wolcott Roosevelt, Jr., of New York City and Adams 'House; Arthur Chute McGill, of Wellesley Hills and Lowell House; and Thomas Roberson Morse, of Boston and Lowell House...
...Reality. In 1924, as Nellie had predicted, the paved highway came, not long after she and her sons, George Roberson, now 60 (by her first husband) and Earl Coffman, now 55, had borrowed $35,000 to build the first concrete buildings which are now part of the rambling Desert Inn, with its tile-roofed guest houses, swimming pool and tennis court. They continued expanding through 1930, when the depression caught them $675,000 in debt. Not until 1945 did Nellie manage to pay off all her debts...
Arrested in Brooklyn, N.Y., for annoying a woman in a subway, one Willie Roberson was discovered to be one of the Scottsboro boys. He was convicted of disorderly conduct, given 90 days in the workhouse...
Back to New York, city of 1,765,000 Jews and 327,700 Negroes, to a delirious welcome went Lawyer Liebowitz and his four freed Negroes: Willie Roberson, 21, cured of a venereal disease since his 1931 arrest; Eugene Williams, 21, Roy Wright, 20; and semi-blind Olin Montgomery, 24. To Lawyer Liebowitz they were not only four innocent brands plucked from the burning, but four more celebrities added to the roll of 132 accused murderers and others whom Sam Liebowitz boasts of saving from death. He, a Jew, had dared the South's "boll weevil bigots," "creatures whose...