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...fully as quiet-or was until last week-as Moccasin, Mont., Husband, Pa., or Clam, Va. Last week, as everyone in Pearl River will remember ("You can say that again, Mac")-as everyone in Pearl River will remember, Frank Perkins, a peaceful, pippin-faced youth of 21, went crow-hunting along the brackish banks of the Hackensack River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frank & the Bird | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Hardly had he gotten out of his car, .22 rifle in hand, when he spotted a crow. The crow flew. Frank followed, patiently afoot, past fallow fields, thin thickets, ragged coverts and other unfortunate evidences of that dilapidated state into which nature habitually falls in winter. The crow stopped occasionally, but it covered about half a mile, as an erratic crow flies, before it roosted invitingly in a tree just beyond a ramshackle, wooden building. Frank crossed a mossy log over a creek and got within 100 feet of his quarry. Balancing there, he drew a bead and fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frank & the Bird | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...splitting crash followed another. The sky was lost in smoke, balls of fire whanged in all directions, and the surrounding woodland was magically garnished by endless streamers of colored paper. Frank didn't know what to think. Not until hours later did he learn that the wandering crow had lured him to the plant of the Barnabas Fireworks Co. He fell backwards off the log into the mud, fled across the creek, dropped his rifle, yanked off his shoes, dived into the Hackensack River and swam it like a beaver heading for a woodyard. As he emerged dripping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Frank & the Bird | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...also found that they are being chipped away. On Atlantic Coast Line's Palmetto, between Washington and Charleston, where five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Return of the Native | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...both political parties in regard to Soviet Russia. He claimed that "today we are worshipping mediocrity in the national government," and in asking for immediate action on the civil rights said that we could no longer "face the world with a bi-partisan foreign policy and still be Jim Crow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Republicans May Be Minor Party, Says Javits in Forum | 3/3/1951 | See Source »

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