Word: tilghman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order as automatic cancellation of Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High and Tilghman Trade School of Paducah, Ky. (Central 25, Tilghman 14-Central's 35th straight victory...
Died. Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis...
...traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered, Peale promptly turned the windows of his house into an illuminated display. He filled the windows with colored cartoons of Washington and Rochambeau, titled SHINE VALIANT CHIEFS, and took the third story to spell out: FOR OUR ALLIES, HUZZA! HUZZA...
...brought him as many commissions as he could handle. One of them, a painting of Washington at Yorktown, which still hangs in the Maryland House of Delegates (see color page), is one of the best of Washington at his prime. Peale added the Marylanders' hero, hard-riding Colonel Tilghman, holding the articles of surrender, and Peale's great friend Lafayette. In the middle ground, "to tell the story at first sight," Peale introduced the French and U.S. battle flags on either side of two downcast Britons carrying their colors cased...
...have also been its majority stockholders, owning 55% of the newspaper. Last week plans were completed to sell 75,000 more shares to the "permanent" (more than five years) employees. The new stock, purchased from the estate of the Journal's onetime business manager (and later publisher), Lloyd Tilghman Boyd, will boost employee ownership to 67½%. To date, the Journal's 831 employee-owners have paid $3,325,920 for stock that has paid $6,516,000 in dividends, is now worth...