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From the day of grandma's funeral, Novelist (Crow Field) Boylen takes the reader back three years to the day when one of Ned Claypoole's footling experiments blew up and cost Lovey her sight. Red-haired Lovey soon finds that she is a misfit as a martyr. "Being a mean child," she explains, "I hadn't the temperament for it." While mother works as a nurse and father, as Noonday Ned the Oldtime Fiddler, saws away at the local radio station, Lovey is left to the untender mercies of sour old grandma, who tries zealously...
...month-old Negro boycott of Jim Crow buses in Montgomery, Ala., has taught the South a fact of economic life: in regions where most bus passengers are Negroes, the boycott is a powerful economic weapon. Last week in Montgomery a three-judge panel in Federal Court-all judges born and raised in Alabama-gave the boycott a sharp legal edge: the court ruled 2-1 that the city's Jim Crow bus seating violates the 14th Amendment and is unconstitutional...
...Negro leaders of a two-week-old bus boycott rejected some surprisingly moderate bus-company concessions, e.g., first come, first-served seating (but no side-by-side mixing of Negroes and whites), hiring of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro runs. Instead, they demanded complete abolition of Jim Crow seating...
...Memphis, the president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed suit in Federal Court to challenge state laws requiring Jim Crow public transportation; he said enigmatically that there would be no bus boycott unless one started up "spontaneously...
...Wood (Wis.) Veterans Administration Center. There she found 297 cases, 156 in patients who also had tuberculosis and 141 in those free of TB. There has been a startlingly rapid increase in numbers of cases from 1954 to 1955. From Georgia's Battey State Hospital, Dr. Horace E. Crow reported discovery of a similar (perhaps the same) mystery bacillus in 69 patients...