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George courted Lurleen at a local dime store, where she was a 16-year-old clerk, then went off to World War II service as a B-29 crewman (nine combat missions in the Pacific). The war also separated the Johnsons. Ruth served as a WAVE lieutenant in Washington, editing secret papers for an admiral on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. An infantry lieutenant in Patton's army, Frank won a Bronze Star in the Normandy invasion, was wounded twice and sent back to England as a legal officer...
...credibility gap was just a line in one of Everett Dirksen's sonnets. Now it's a national issue. What do you think?' When I said I thought I'd better call Harry Guggenheim, you know what the President did? He gave me a dime...
Strollers wear jingle bells at their ankles, beads or flowers at their throats, and strum guitars or tootle flutes. It is not rare to see a Haight Street hippie put a dime in a parking meter, then flake out along the curb for a legal dose of sun tan. Wall posters, in the style of China's Red Guard movement, abound-most of them signed "Love" or "Peace" and bearing such timeless messages as "Gypsy come home-your mother is pushed out of shape...
...Negroes in the Black Belt of Alabama and Mississippi (during the Meredith March from Memphis to Jackson last summer, the Courier distributed free copies along the route, received letters asking for reporters and subscriptions, and happily supplied both). Few people want their copies mailed; they prefer to pay a dime each time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well as news tips and items for a short...
...Only four months ago, he completed what he hopes was his last engagement on the "chitlin circuit"-a string of small Negro nightclubs such as Cleveland's Corner Tavern, San Francisco's Sugar Hill, St. Louis' Riviera. In most of them, the singer perches on a dime-sized platform above the bar and tries to make himself heard above the jingle of the cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just such places that Rawls learned how to grab attention by spitting out rapid-fire monologues about anything that came to mind...