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...Father's Day, which is beginning to edge into equal, if less throat-lumping, status with Mother's Day, came and passed last week in a blaze of angled advertising. The things the stores picked out for special Father's Day promotion (after the usual collection of ties, bathrobes and gold-plated putters) added up to a touching composite picture of the National Daddy...
...after the May 17 TIME had gone to press, but an account was included in most copies: "Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives . . . put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze...
...blaze of bombs, the flash of blades, the eerie glow of fire, the keening cries of hatred, the wild dance of terror in the night-all this was Birmingham, Ala. Birmingham's Negroes had always seemed a docile lot. Downtown at night, they slouched in gloomy huddles beneath street lamps, talking softly or not at all. They knew their place: they were "niggers"' in a Jim Crow town, and they bore their degradation in silence. But last week they smashed that image forever. The scenes in Birmingham were unforgettable. There was the Negro youth, sprawled on his back...
...driver was knifed, his taxi overturned and burned. A policeman was stabbed in the back and a white youngster's arm was slashed from shoulder to elbow. Negroes put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze. Two Negro homes nearby went up in flames, then three more white men's buildings. The rioters, bathed in the flickering orange light of the flames, looted a liquor store and screamed into the night: "White man, we'll kill you!" Miraculously, there were no deaths. But Bull...
Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday that he will take no steps to have part of East Cambridge declared a disaster area after a general-alarm five there Easter Sunday, because the blaze had caused "no heavy individual loss...