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...Albany, Georgia, to make the revolution. There was a mass meeting soon after their arrival, and they were introduced to the other people as "friends who feel so deeply that segregation is a blot on our land that they have come down to help us destroy it." In the amen corner, old Mrs. Jones nodded her gray head beneath its round, straight hat, admiring, grave and grateful as if before a work of God: "Sacrificin' their summers an' all for the Movement." In the back of the church, four tight-trousered cats from the pool hall down the street looked...
...music changed to the subdued strains of the "Tuba mirum," sung by the professional soloists Jeanette Scovotti, June Genovese, Walter Carringer, and George Hoffman. The chorus had some trouble going into this gentle mood at the beginning of the "Lacrimosa", but was highly inspiring when it reached the "Amen" at the end of the movement. While they did not retain this peak of grandeur on the "Domine Jesu" or in the fugue of the "Hostias," they recaptured it during the end of the "Hostias." The base was exceptionally superb during this part and during the following "Sanctus...
...runs highest, and one of Diebold's staff has been moved to deflate the alarmists: "Stories must still be told through the minds of men. They must be edited; copy must be proofread. It is only the tools with which the editor works that are going to change." Amen...
...Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...
...paddy wagon. In squads of 20, 30, and 40, more youngsters left the church, were shoved into paddy wagons and taken to jail. Bull Connor arrived and yelled at a police captain: "I told you these sons of bitches ought to be watered down." That night, to shouts of "Amen, brother, amen," a King aide cried: "War has been declared in Birmingham. War has been declared on segregation." The Negro leaders intended it to be a particular, pacific kind of war. King had preached Gandhi's nonviolent protest gospel ever since he arrived in Birmingham. The demonstrations were meant...