MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1994 BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg’s searing Holocaust drama of death and salvation, captured a leading 12 nominations Wednesday for the 66th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The Piano and The Remains of the Day earned eight nominations each, including Best Picture. The other Best Picture nominees were The Fugitive and In the Name of the Father. 50 years ago — 1969 Maybe it’s not an earth-shattering issue to most Memphians that the trustees of Brooks Art Gallery meet behind closed doors. But if that’s policy, then we condemn it as wrong. This is a public institution, operated with public funds as part of the city government, and what happens in trustee meetings should be a matter of public record. We find it shocking that those attending the most recent meeting of the Brooks Gallery trustees could not trust the public to know what they were doing, and refused to comment later. 75 years ago — 1944 The Senate will investigate why the army is abandoning the Union City, Tenn., airfield after spending more than one million dollars equipping it, Senator Harry Truman (D-MO.) said yesterday. The investigation will be made at the request of Tennessee’s Senator Kenneth Mckellar who has vigorously protested the decision. 100 years ago — 1919 WASHINGTON — Prohibition of immigration for four years after the war except from Cuba, Canada, Mexico and Newfoundland, was unanimously agreed on yesterday by the House Immigration Committee. The bill is designed primarily to keep out Bolsheviks, a committee member said. Already protests have been received from British labor leader George Barnes. “The European labor market is full, while the field for employment in the U.S. has hardly been scratched,” he said, adding that alleviating industrial conditions is an integral part of keeping world peace. 125 years ago — 1894 The Oklahoma Populists are greatly taken with the idea of J.S. Coxey of Ohio who has announced he will lead an army of 100,000 unemployed American citizens into Washington May 1 and demand certain legislation for their relief.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES Treadwell High School made it three in a row on the Quiz ’Em on the Air Contest on 10 Feb 1951 as Tommy Graham, top left, and Joe Spann, top right, members of the team, indicate with upraised fingers. Also on the team are Billy Caldbeck, lower left, and Mary Anne Sellers.