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...face of Hummon's ominous white-supremacy shouting, Georgia's Negro voters did not exactly rush to the polls. In Melvin Thompson's home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front...
...Square, two blocks away, walked a group carrying a giant portrait of the dead man. Next came nine generals, one admiral, three civilians, each carrying on a red plush pillow one of Zhdanov's 13 military, naval and civilian decorations. 'The open red and black draped coffin rode on a caisson pulled by six jet-black, white-harnessed horses. Zhdanov's mustached, lifeless face was green in the glittering sunlight. Beside the caisson walked Stalin, with Molotov on his right; and behind Stalin, youngish (47), tough Georgy Maximilianovich Malenkov, with Police Boss Lavrenty Beria on his right...
...something to say, he knows how to say it. Swiss Professor Emil Brunner, one of Europe's leading theologians, paid it a rare tribute: "It is rather exceptional that a book of dogmatic theology makes fascinating reading . . ." Union Theological Seminary's President Emeritus Henry Sloane Coffin gave it an equally rare garland: "First-rate . . . We have little really tiptop theology today, and this is tiptop...
...Jest. Near Bursa, Turkey, two passengers jumped from a speeding bus when a prankster, riding along in a coffin, raised...
Assistance from the Master. For a while, he earned a living as an assistant to a coffin maker. But he still plugged away at his sculpture. One day an old man with a flowing beard called on him to congratulate him on a statue he had seen. "I have come to offer my assistance. My name," the old man added, "is Rodin...