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Pale, egotistical student Jonathan Crow, whose only response to her love was an endless and epicene discussion of sex, was her obsession. She followed him to London, found him unchanged: churlish, perverse, still unable to bring himself either to accept her love or to reject...
...this announcement shouts of "Jim Crow" went up from the Negro press and public. The President promptly called off the plan, left the Army with a choice of 1) sending Negroes to centers for white Ground Forces soldiers; 2) setting up equally fancy centers, probably up North, for Negroes only...
...another kind of exercise in race relations. So Ground Forces officers considered all-Negro rest hotels in first-class resorts, gloomily reflected that, if that solution were selected, they would hear loud squawks from the managements of any hotels they chose. And again the Negro press would cry "Jim Crow...
Crying Jim Crow, some Negro papers, while admitting that the Negro soldier would probably get along much better in Chicago and New York than in a place like Asheville, objected strongly to the segregation, on principle. They also objected because permanent guests of both hotels would be hard put to it to find room elsewhere...
Seven years ago, after the duck population had dropped to a miserable 30 million, sportsmen formed Ducks Unlimited (Canada) to restore drought-ridden breeding grounds and wage total war on duck-egg-eating crows and magpies. In the battle of the eggs, Ducks Unlimited paid 2? apiece for hundreds of thousands of crow and magpie eggs. In Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories, the conservation group built 130 duck refuges covering 1,200,000 acres...