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...prearranged rendezvous in a theater smoking room. From then on, Hayhanen, Abel and a few underlings passed information and money to one another by using a variety of Hitch-cocky gimmicks. The agents slipped their material into hollowed-out coins, flashlight batteries, pencils and bolts, left them in such courier drops as a lamppost, phone-booth seats, cracks in concrete staircases...
...affectionate welcome, some of the press ranged from gooey valentines to hearty backslaps that gave the Cornwallis ritual at least the virtue of dignity. The Louisville Courier-Journal gushed that Elizabeth looked like an English rose "with a little of the morning dew still on the petals." Perhaps the deepest curtsy came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose greeting used "Her Majesty" seven times and "the Queen" only twice−a ratio of respect unmatched by the London Times itself. Long Island's Newsday burbled: WE LOVE THE QUEEN...
Pearce, an associate editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, spoke on the topic "How Louisville Desegregated its Schools without Violence...
When the President ordered paratroopers into Little Rock, it was predictable there would be an angry outcry from Southern newspapers; only half a dozen of them-notably the Nashville Tennessean, the Chattanooga Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal-had endorsed the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. What was not to be expected was the violence or speed with which the South's press turned directly on Ike, the moderate respecter of state sovereignty who has won warmer and more widespread support in Southern newspapers than any other Republican President. Grieved the Birmingham Post-Herald's John Temple Graves, Dixie...
...occupation for a replay of Reconstruction." The Ike-minded Dallas News trumpeted that a Southern governor is now "a satrap-on-sufferance, removable or jailable on the order of a carpetbag judge." "CAESARISM," shrilled one of six anti-Eisenhower editorials in a single issue of the Charleston News and Courier...