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...uneasy quiet lay over the University of Alabama, as if the campus had, for the present at least, been shocked into some semblance of sanity. The safety-first suspension of Negro Autherine Lucy still stood, but a good segment of 'Bama seemed to have decided that violence is not the answer to the problems raised by her admission (TIME, Feb.20...
...took a seat in the first row. "I was met with hateful stares," she reported later. "As I sat down . . . several students moved away." That night 1,000 students marched on the home of President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael. They sang Dixie, shouted, "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Another group of mobsters set a Ku Klux-style cross on fire in front of Dean William Adams' house...
...allowed to sleep in any university dormitory or eat in any university dining room, these restrictions are apparently not enough for her fellow students. One night last week, 1,000 marched on the home of President Oliver C. Carmichael shouting, "To hell with Autherine" and "Keep 'Bama White!" Nonetheless. Autherine had chalked up something of a victory. She is the first of her race ever to be admitted into any white public school, college or university in Alabama...
Though he leads the National League in strikeouts, Righthander Blackwell did not really bear down on fanning an opponent until the last batter stepped up to face him. Blackwell steamed in a high fast ball, and Bama Rowell struck...
...South, Alabama's blond thread-needle passer, 180-lb. Harry Gilmer, star of last year's Sugar Bowl game, put 'Bama on a pre-season par with powerhoused Georgia Tech and Duke-which last week flattened South Carolina...