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...also had his fill of martyrdom. Last week a minister friend was trying to find a job for him and a place to live, so that he could put in a formal application for parole. Wrote Gara to the minister: "The days now go rather rapidly, but the weeks creep and the months seem very long . . . But God does grant me the strength sufficient unto each day, and I feel that, so far at least, I've not succumbed to the temptation of bitterness. But, believe me, it is a terrific struggle...
...admitting in his proud CataIan way that he had been converted. When word of this reached the villagers, converts flocked in by the score. The name of Garry Davis began to creep into almost every conversation about the price of grapes and apricots. The mayor dreamed up the idea of declaring Trouillas to be world territory, and sprang it on the council one day when seven of 13 councilors were present. The seven were a quorum, and every one was in favor...
...Charley Gray," prototype of the millions of decent, middle-class U.S. citizens who burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons, is the central figure in the new novel...
...Charley Grays burn themselves out in the race to pass the Blakesleys and creep up on the Burtons; then find themselves at the end with no spiritual props to make life bearable. The question Author Marquand's book raises is: "Are the rewards of all your efforts worth the effort?" But Charley Gray himself may be too busy even to hear the issue stated. Like an aircraft pilot who has passed his own point of no return-the point on a long flight where it takes more gas to go back than to go on to his destination-Charley...
Only twice did the cold creep into Truman's manner. When Georgia's Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...