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...Sprigle had "crossed over" to see it through the Negro's eyes. Last week, in his own paper and 13 others (none of them south of what he had learned to call the "Smith & Wesson" line), Sprigle began telling what he saw "In the Land of Jim Crow." As an account of man's inhumanity to man-and man's capacity for enduring it-his series made Gentleman's Agreement seem gentlemanly indeed...
...Washington's Union Station, sun-browned Reporter Sprigle, alias Brother Crawford, climbed aboard a Jim Crow coach with his guide, a Negro businessman (and the only Negro who was in on his identity). Only his guide, his family and his Post-Gazette editors knew what Sprigle was up to. "From then on," he wrote, "until I came up out of the South four weeks later, I was black, and in bondage-not quite slavery but not quite freedom, either. My rights of citizenship ran only as far as the nearest white man said they...
Last week, Boston's sportwriters were eating crow for all the unkind things they had said about Marse Joe. The Sox were battling it out for the American League lead, neck & neck with the Philadelphia A's, the Yankees and the Indians...
...Sales and earnings for the second quarter," crowed Johns-Manville Corp.'s Board Chairman Lewis H. Brown, "were the largest for any quarter in the company's history." He did not crow alone. In the spate of second-quarter reports that came out last week, many another businessman sang the same happy tune...
...This Infamous Program." In the convention hall, Southern oratory boomed out like cannon fire. In the front row, Oklahoma's doddering ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray beamed his approval, proudly recalled that "I'm the man who introduced Jim Crow in Oklahoma." Race-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith turned up as a spectator under the pseudonym of S. Goodyear. A group of Mississippi students set up a chant: "To hell with Truman...