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...called on Editor Hardy at his home. Unless he went down to the office and apologized, they said darkly, they could not be responsible for what might happen. He went along with them, found 100 angry men waiting outside the Times and decided to eat a bite of crow. He had not aimed that editorial at anybody in Upson County (it had voted for Carmichael), he said, and if he had hurt anybody's feelings, he was sorry. He would say so in the next issue...
Said Joe Curran ruefully, in the third person singular: "While Curran may have been elected this time, if he doesn't get into line, the next elections he is liable to be up in the crow's-nest." More likely, thought some of Joe's friends, he would be hanging from the yardarm...
...first National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships held in the South since 1914. (The A.A.U. arranged for a special Pullman car to San Antonio, so their Negro contestants would not have to ride in Jim Crow cars.) The only new world's record set at San Antonio: burly ex-Coast Guardsman Bob Fitch of Minnesota hurled the discus 179 ft. ⅛ in., bettering Italian Adolfo Consolini's mark by more than four feet...
...ambassador stared at the ceiling; some of the guests fidgeted. Crow reminded "our distinguished guests" of all the things Detroit had contributed to Russia during the war. He thought it would total about $3 billion. Then he introduced the Detroit-Russian Choir as "Russia's contribution to Detroit...
...weary delegates packed up their bags and headed for home they had constructed a determined, deadly serious, left-of-center plan of action. It called for: international control of atomic energy, Big Three unity, a guaranteed annual wage, expansion of TVA-style river projects, solid opposition to antilabor, Jim Crow* and anti-Nisei legislation. True to the motto, it vetoed the idea of a veterans' bonus...