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...station's strongest pitch is not to the ear but the heart. During its 4 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, it airs hundreds of distress calls, ranging from alarms for lost children to pleas for blood donors. As a tracer of missing persons, it puts radio's fictional Mr. Keen to shame, has a stringer system all over the South to help in tracking them down. Last year WDIA gave baseball uniforms and equipment to 650 boys, is now raising funds for an orphanage...
Unemployment Benefits. In La Follette, Tenn., after severe unemployment forced the Federal Government to declare his county a "distress area," Sheriff Willie Chapman and his men raided several moonshine stills, found that the yellow corn meal used to make the liquor had been distributed by the welfare office...
...bloody period, with war almost incessant, and revolution flailing about furiously, uncontrollably. In England, the Catholic monarchy was brought to an end; in France the guillotine and Napoleon drowned liberty in blood; in the American, colonies a war was fought that brings distress to Churchill even now. An old hand at portraiture, he can cut down to size those who displease him. Of King George I: "Here on English soil stood an unprepossessing figure, an obstinate and humdrum German martinet with dull brains and coarse tastes." When he describes combat, which is a good deal of the time, his ardent...
...funereal hush fell over West Germany's air waves one day last week. Broadcasting stations all over the land canceled all light entertainment to stand by for news of a great ship in distress far out in the stormy Atlantic. As hundreds of Germans flocked to their churches to pray, some ten vessels of half a dozen nations fanned out into the stormy sea, and a dozen aircraft joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane...
Outside the local bar society, which has some feelings about the rule of law, none of this seemed to distress many Ghanaians. But it raised outcries all over Britain, which having launched this "Pilot Plant of African Democracy" to show South Africa's Racists how well the blacks could govern themselves, at first sought to minimize its misgivings (TIME, Sept. 2). What particularly raised British hackles was an awareness that actions in Accra were not just the doing of a headstrong Nkrumah but were shrewdly encouraged by a white eminence, Ghana's recently appointed Attorney General, Ulster-born...