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Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker was also forced to eat an expensive diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled...
...After completing a statewide survey on desegregation, the Texas Poll, a service financed by Texas newspapers, reported that the U.S. Supreme Court will have considerable difficulty enforcing its decision against Jim Crow schools. Of 1,000 Texans sampled, 45% said they favored maintaining segregation either by disobeying the law or finding a way to circumvent it. In other words, said the poll, any attempt at immediate integration will "stir up a storm of protest in Texas verging on public disrespect...
...Governor Averell Harriman, attended Walter White's funeral in Harlem, and President Eisenhower mourned a "vigorous champion of justice and equality for all our citizens." A Louisville newspaper eulogized him; the Missouri House passed a resolution of sympathy. As Walter White died, his old enemy Jim Crow was dying...
...departure of maids from Leverett House next week may force the University to hire up to eight new student porters, Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Operating Manager of the Houses and College Dormitories, said yesterday. Some of the new porters hired may be used to reinforce the present "crash crow," operating out of Weld, which performs, and odd jobs where needed, and which will do some of the work in Leverett...
...Council gave complete approval to the methods the crow, football, pistol, ski, and fencing teams use in issuing letters. The first two are major sports; the fast three minor. The Council found complaints with the tennis, squash, and cross-country teams' methods of giving letters and in seeking corrective measures. All three sports are minor...