Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Davy & the Bell...
...very good picture of Mr. Eisenhower on your July 4 cover, but haven't you heard that our Davy Crockett had fixed up the Liberty Bell...
...friends . . . say Davy Crockett is a big fake because the Liberty Bell is still cracked. Maybe Davy didn't patch up the crack like the song says. I wish you would tell me if Davy was a real man or was he just a nobody? I think he was a good American pioneer hero the way I would like to be, but if he didn't do what he says he did, maybe I don't want to be like...
First out was Otho G. Bell, 24, of Hillsboro, Miss., a round-faced little man in a poorly cut fawn-grey cotton suit; next came William A. Cowart, 22, of Dalton, Ga., a hulking figure with dirty white pants shoved into high Korean cavalry boots; last was Lewis W. Griggs, 22, of Neches, Texas, a tall, thin, preoccupied youth, carrying the only luggage of the three: a bundled-up raincoat and a pair of brown shoes dangling by their laces...
Their strange political journeyings had deep roots. All three were born to the bleak Depression South. Their families were poor, their lives unhappy, their world warped. Bell's father bragged that "I could always scare him into anything"; Griggs ran away, eventually joined the Army because of a school-bus teasing about a girl friend. Bell spent three years in the eighth grade; when Cowart wrote a Communist-line letter from the Communist prison camp about McCarthyism and McCarranism. one of his teachers said: "How much it would have gratified us when he was in school to have known...