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...cordiality Studio One's The Unmentionable Blues and quoted from what was obviously a superior script. However, there was no mention of the author, and it read as though [Actor] Elliott Nugent had made up the lines as he was going along. The author's name: Helen Cotton...
...neck and throw you outside the city limits." At week's end Kasper, in the county jail on charges of incitement to riot, and unable to raise $2,500 bond, was confronted by new testimony, relayed by the FBI, linking him to the dynamite bombing of the Hattie Cotton school...
Half an hour after midnight the city was rocked by a thunderous dynamite blast that shattered a wing of the seven-year-old, $500,000 Hattie Cotton Elementary School where one five-year-old Negro girl had registered the day before. The blast ripped doors off hinges, cracked plaster and scattered bricks and glass in thick, ugly layers across the surrounding schoolyard and walks. "A hellish explosion-just like God had whispered in my ear," said one nearby resident...
...children came in a group, accompanied by adults, and left quietly when told by a National Guardsman that "Governor Faubus has placed this school off limits to Negroes." But little Elizabeth Eckford, 15, stepped alone from a bus at the corner of 14th and Park Streets. In a neat cotton dress, bobby-sox and ballet slippers, she walked straight to the National Guard line on the sidewalk. The Guardsmen raised their rifles, keeping...
...parched Arizona acres with the expectation of turning them into a desert garden for some 1,500 Mojave and Chemehuevi tribesmen, who would get the land back in 25 years. As first installment on the $28 million deal, which promised handsome profits to Developer Barton from subleases to cotton growers after he irrigated the land, Barton plunked down a $40,000 personal check with a $5,000,000 performance bond to come in 30 days...