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Colored folks in the sad and seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...
...four years. Whole new villages have sprung from its brown plains, some lush and expensive, others as starkly laid out as well-planned graveyards, all equipped with their own highly colored, glass-heavy shops and markets. Enormous, gleaming new branch department stores have sprung up, not only along Wilshire Boulevard's fabulous Miracle Mile, but in virtually every suburban area. A city ordinance requires that new stores have parking lots; most are as big as football fields...
Within an hour the crowd had swollen to more than 5,000. In the park along bustling Grand Boulevard busy teen-age gangs hunted down Negroes. Others climbed into trucks and circled the park, looking for more targets. One Negro managed to seize a club from his attackers, flailed away in wall-eyed fear, with blood oozing through his shirt front. When police finally reached him, the crowd hooted with glee. "He must have a skull like a rock," said one 16-year-old. "I kicked him twice in the head myself...
Brassert, Walter Leon of Bloomfield, Ind.; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio. Bredt, James Havens of 2364 Atkins Avenue, Lakewood; Lakewood High. Brumm, Gordon Lee of 2208 Emily Drive, Lakewood; Lakewood High. Cadenhead, Ian William of 39 Shelton Boulevard, Willoughby; Union High, Willoughby. Genuth, Saul Maurice of 3533 Hildana Road, Cleveland; Shaker Heights High, Shaker Heights. Kjellgren, Bengt Hugo of 2423 Eaton Road, Cleveland; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson. Layzer, Robert Bertrand of 2851 Euclid Heights Boulevard, Cleveland Heights; Cleveland Heights High. Reinhardt, Nicholas of RR No. 1, Raglund Road, Newtown; Terrace Park High, Terrace Park. Senger, Harry Lech...
Stewart climbed into his car and drove aimlessly until he chanced upon the First Congregational Church on Franklin Boulevard. Its slogan beckoned like a beacon: "Only a Stranger Once." Stewart went in, sat through the service and wrote a folksy column for the Press about the church, its frock-coated, friendly pastor and its "mighty fine" mixed choir...