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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he tried to enter a meeting hall through the "Negro entrance" (TIME, May 10), Idaho's Senator Glen Taylor was found guilty in Birmingham last week of disorderly conduct, assault and battery, and interfering with an officer. Taylor's lawyers argued that it violated the Senator's constitutional rights to bar him from any door because of his color, indicated that the fight would be carried to the Supreme Court. Judge Oliver Hall fined the Senator $50, sentenced him to 180 days in jail, suspended the sentence, then grumped: "This is a publicity stunt...
...work just as hard-for a farmer who is known to be unfair and cruel as for a kind and honest one. His explanation: almost every Negro suspects in his heart that all white men are alike, that all will rob and deceive him, no matter what their conduct seems...
...sign, "Negroes." "This is the colored entrance," he said, "the white entrance is around the side." Taylor ignored him, tried to brush past. Four detectives closed in. They hustled Taylor to a patrol car and shoved him in. At the police station, Senator Taylor was booked for "disorderly conduct" (for violating Alabama's segregation laws) and searched. When he protested, a cop growled: "Keep your mouth shut, buddy." Released on bond, he was ordered to stand trial this week. Said Senator Taylor: "They treated me very rough-anything but gentlemanly. God help the ordinary...
Brand Blanshard professor of Philosophy at Yale, has been appointed William Belden Noble Lecturer for the 1948-49 academic year. Under this lectureship, he will deliver several public talks on religious subjects. In the fall term he will conduct a seminar at the Divinity School in the fields of Ethics, which will be open to all students...
Next week Hogarth House will publish (at $2.95) The Sexual Conduct of Men and Women, by Norman Lockridge (author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women...