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...blackened iron bell in the ashes. The three drove a mile down the road to the farmhouse of Junior Roosevelt Cole, 58, a Negro and lay leader of the church, who told them that on the night of the fire he was dragged from his car in the churchyard and clubbed unconscious by a mob of whites. Schwerner asked Cole to come to Meridian Tuesday. "We want to get this fire business straightened out," Schwerner told him. "We want to stop all this...
Last March, the graves of six women were opened in the abandoned churchyard of St. Mary's, Clophill, Bedfordshire. One skeleton was removed, and was later discovered inside the church. Investigators assume that the church had been the scene of an impromptu Black Mass-which, properly performed, requires a live nude woman as altar...
...most hallowed ground safe from the profane American. "Although they descend from people who could not succeed in Europe and furiously shook its dust from their feet, they have a sentimental feeling for ancestors. They even look for them in England, nurturing a strange belief that in some country churchyard Hoggefeller and Potemkine lie dust to dust with Hogward and Potkin...
...case, perhaps, of an allergy, in a country churchyard. Nancy Mitford is really a terrible tease, but she should remember that a tease should never lose her temper, and that when she calls someone Hoggefeller, smile...
...were the targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With a rueful smile, one white girl summed up: "Some of us have grown...