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...chauffeur-bodyguards brings one of his Buicks around to the door for the 29-mile drive into town (via an arterial gallingly named Roosevelt Road). After one recent commuting trip on which he noted that the crows seemed to be getting out of hand, he was moved to take over the Tribune farm column for a short essay on weapons: "The firearms manufacturers," he wrote, "have been dead from the neck up for about 40 years. . . . The crow easily gets away from anything the old-fashioned shotgun can throw at him. There is needed a crow gun to decimate this...
...Crow district court last week Texas officials made a show of claiming that they had provided "equal facilities" for Negroes by setting up a "law school" (with a charter but no students) in an Austin basement. But the state concentrated on defending segregation as such. Texas Dean B.F. Pittenger argued: "The attitude of Texans being what it is, the effect of abandoning segregation . . . would set back public education in Texas." Rather than let children mingle with Negroes, he said, white parents would send them to private schools...
...compared to New York's 2.5 percent. But in the former this adds up to only $400 per schoolroom per year, as opposed to $4000 for the same use in the Empire State. And the southern dual school system, with separate buildings and expensive duplication because of Jim Crow, adds to the difficulty. Clearly, many of these states cannot afford good schools...
...ideological questions are not likely to diver it from the large view: When Southern delegates at Chicago objected to a resolution requiring interracial meetings, the most militant anti-discrimination advocates did not shout "Jim Crow...
...American, pouring out the riches of her art to houses that are sold out weeks in advance, could not for a long time travel about her country like her fellow citizens. She has given concerts in the South, where her voice is greatly admired (and where she avoids Jim Crow by traveling in drawing rooms on night trains). Even in the North, she could not until fairly recently stay at most good hotels. In the South, she must still stay with friends. In New York City, she used to leave frantically applauding audiences to sleep at the Harlem Y.W.C.A. Then...