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Next day, at a mass meeting, students got up a petition demanding that the Talmadge-packed Board of Regents be unpacked. The students rounded up a caravan of 108 cars, rolled out of Athens bound for the Capitol at Atlanta, 70 miles away. At their head was a jalopy flying red and black streamers and bearing Student Leader Alpha Fowler Jr., son of a State legislator. Behind came placards: We Don't Want a Discredited University. . . . Keep Politics Out of the University. . . . Talmadge, Phooey...
With horns blowing and a sound truck blaring Dixie, the caravan circled the Capitol twice, then halted at a statue of oldtime Populist Demagogue Thomas E. Watson. A student jammed a wax bust of Talmadge over the statue's head. Up jumped Cheerleader William Malone and bellowed through his megaphone "Are we afraid of Talmadge?" The mob roared: "Hell...
Finally, singing "Glory, Glory to old Georgia," and cheered by thousands of Atlantans in the streets, the caravan whooped back to Athens...
Last week a third caravan of contemporary U.S. paintings set up its wares in Bogotá, capital of Colombia...
Motto of the Bank of England has always been: "Never explain. Never apologize." To newspaper criticisms of the Bank Norman once said merely: "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on." But in wartime England such hauteur no longer suffices. After Picture Post featured an article last spring demanding that Norman retire, he appointed the Bank's first press-relations officer in history...