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...Negroes who live within the 50,000-watt range from Cairo, Ill. to Jackson, Miss. It was soon heeded not only in homes and cars but in the fields, where cotton pickers still take portable radios to pick up the disk-jockey ramblings of Theo ("Bless My Bones") Wade and such musical shows as Tan Town Coffee Club, Wheelin' on Beale and Hallelujah Jubilee. Despite the jazzy titles, WDIA favors spirituals over romp-and-stomp music...
Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...
...overwhelmed with joy. I can say only thanks," said Nelson Higgins, tears streaming down his cheeks. Just before the benediction, an elderly white woman stood up and said: "God bless you, Mr. Higgins." Later. Pastor Higgins announced that he had received three applications for membership, and asked if there were more. Nine people came forward. (By week's end, membership had reached 16, including four whites.) To gather up the offering, pots and pans from the parsonage were pressed into service to supplement the four collection plates. In all, the throng contributed...
...marine who was not at Midway, as I recall, there was a marine or two ashore who did some mentionable shooting. At least this instance is not so bad as were some personified by one of the stanzas of Bless...
...Mormon Leader Brigham Young decided that his followers must have an academy to train Mormon teachers ("I want you to remember," he told its first permanent head "that you ought not to teach even the alphabet or the multiplication tables without the spirit of God. That is all. God bless you. Goodbye"), B.Y.U. has had a most uncertain career. Though it has turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during...