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...fields of Georgia. Ex-Governor Griffin, running for a return trip to Atlanta, assured an audience that there was only one way to handle integrationist "agitators." Said he: "There ain't but one thing to do and that is to cut down a blackjack sapling and brain 'em and nip 'em in the bud." Griffin hastily added that he didn't mean to be taken literally-but obviously, in some circles, he was. For as Griffin let out all the segregationist stops in the closing days of one of Georgia's bitterest, dirtiest Democratic primary...
...Hamilton, Poor Hamilton, Madison Wrote 'Em and You're Feeling So Sad. That, in effect, was the title of the story, sketched out last week before a joint-meeting of the American Statistical Association, the Biometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics...
...when the people want to do something I can't find anything in the Constitution expressly forbidding them to do, I say, whether I like it or not, 'Goddammit, let 'em do it.' ' In his own fashion, Frankfurter expressed that doctrine most eloquently in his dissenting opinion in 1943's West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a milestone case in which the majority ruled that it is unconstitutional for a state to require schoolchildren to salute the nation's flag. Frankfurter argued that since the state law aimed toward "a legitimate...
...white film. A Naked City hood once dashed into Pennsylvania Station, stopped an imaginary bullet, and fell "dead" at the feet of a couple of thousand startled commuters. Each show has about six dozen directors-one paid professional, plus all the unemployed geniuses in the neighborhood. "Roll 'em!" a Bowery bum once kept shouting all day at the film crew...
...Roll 'em! This is costing $2,000 a foot...