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...Case of Fire. Dr. Merrimon Cuninggim, dean of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, ticked off the South's "moth-eaten and decrepit" defenses of segregation (e.g., "The Negroes lack our standards in health, morality and marital fidelity"), scoffed in answer: "Then, if so, let's get to work on them. What do we do when the house catches fire, even the back room? Take a walk? . . . Most of us are getting tired of seeing ministers and laymen react as Southerners first and Christians second...
...182Willie ("Cemetery") Perteet, the aging (51) Georgia caddy who lost his job as President Eisenhower's exclusive club toter because the Augusta National pro decided he was "too decrepit," got a longdistance vote of confidence from Spokane. Members of the Spokane Athletic Round Table invited Cemetery to caddy in their national seniors open (for men over 50), were still undecided whether to assign him to Ike's brother Edgar (68) or Augusta Pro Ed Dudley (55), the man who fired...
...editorial comment on Britain's attack on Suez, Socialist Vicky was, as usual, Fleet Street's sharpest mocksman -because he saw the British as they do not like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time...
...campaign had netted $350,000. ¶ Congress sent to the President a bill to set up a National Library of Medicine within the U.S. Public Health Service. It will replace the Armed Forces Medical Library, probably the world's most valuable, now housed in a decrepit building on Independence Avenue, where its treasured archives are in constant danger from leaky roofs and fire...
Eugene Meyer took over the decrepit Post and, as he said, "made all the mistakes in the book." He went on a buying spree, snapping up expensive but unsuitable executives, trained seals, special features and the syndicated columns that were then coming into vogue. (To this day the Post runs 15 syndicated columns, from Walter Lippmann to Walter Winchell, more than any other U.S. paper, plus no fewer than 35 daily comic strips.) Once, during his purchasing zeal, Meyer noticed general gloom over the standing of the Washington Senators baseball team. He called in Sports Columnist Shirley Povich and asked...