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...bringing a native Tahitian back to England as a souvenir (and promised that he would eventually be returned home). The Tahitian, a youth named Omai, soon became the pet of London Society. Dressed up in an elaborate frogged coat and sword, he was honored by budding Novelist Fanny Burney, who praised him as a "lyon of lyons." Sir Joshua Reynolds painted a portrait of him in a turban. He was even introduced to King George, whose name he mispronounced as he greeted him: "How do, King Tosh...
...ever-solicitous Archerd-and died after the usual convulsions that night. Archerd, recipient of the insurance, tried but failed to collect. At about this time, Archerd's brother Everett died at his job, and Archerd and his mother were entrusted with $5,000 for Everett's son, Burney, 15. In August 1961, Burney was taken to the hospital, where he reported that he had been hit by a car, though an investigation showed no such accident had taken place. Burney nonetheless remained in the hospital, where he was visited by his kindly Uncle William. He died soon thereafter...
During his campaign for Governor, Mississippi's Democratic Lieutenant Governor Paul Burney Johnson Jr. rarely stopped talking about race. "Either you believe in states' rights, home rule," he told one rural rally, "or you believe in turning over this state to a black minority." He got surefire belly laughs with his definition of the N.A.A.C.P. as a combine of "niggers, alligators, apes, coons and possums...
...Supremest? In Mississippi, where only 6% of the state's Negroes have the vote, the issue was who would be the supremest white supremacist. Paul Burney Johnson Jr., Democratic Lieutenant Governor, had a head start as the outdoing disciple of segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. Once a man gets the Democratic nomination in Mississippi, he is usually as good as elected, but Johnson had to work hard to win the general election last week. He was opposed by Republican Rubel Phillips, who ran as a Goldwater-backing candidate and polled an amazing-for a Mississippi Republican-123,000 votes...
...Paul Burney Johnson Jr., the lawyer son of a former Governor of Mississippi, made no bones about wanting to follow in Daddy's hallowed footsteps Three times in ten years he ran for Governor and each time he was defeated. But last week it appeared that Johnson, 47, might soon achieve his lifetime ambition...