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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headed for a night out, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Rumney of Lusk, Wyo. were unable to locate a baby-sitter in their home town. In their two-seat private plane they flew 28 miles to Lance Creek, found one, flew her back. The next morning they flew her home...
...their backs to the decaying summer house and watched the strangers. Irwinton seemed full of strangers, their cars raising clouds of red Georgia dust. Said one resentfully: "We had a white man lay over in a swamp near Big Sandy Creek till the buzzards ate him up, and they found his bones. We didn't have a single newspaperman look at the bones. But seein' as Picky Pie is a nigger he makes headlines." Irwinton was reacting to 1949's first lynching...
Next morning two young farmers found Hill's body, face downward in the sandy Georgia roadside, near Big Sandy Creek. He had been shot through the head and body. Roused, Sheriff Hatcher was amazed: "I thought, could it be they'd come and got my prisoner? I ran upstairs and sure enough, Hill was gone...
...daybed and Doxsee hit him again when he sat up. He hauled Cirrotta up by the sweater and gave it to him for the third time. Somewhere along the line, another of the eight whacked Ray. The boys also wrecked the room. The student who lived across the hall found Ray in the bathroom wiping the blood off a cut lip, and put him to bed. Later he had to be taken to the hospital. There, after five hours, Ray Cirrotta died on the operating table of a cerebral hemorrhage. Dartmouth suspended the eight students...
...Alice dodged his lasso. Then, in the second act finale where things started popping in the old Viennese operettas, Alice announced to a party of distinguished guests that she had picked Secretary Smythe to be her husband. Though at this point Freddie loved her well, he found her procedure highhanded. When old Cowder offered him $50 million as an added inducement, Freddie sang with simple dignity: "I trample on your gold..." Cowder: He scorns my daughter's addresses! Freddie: Thus do I treat all dollar princesses! The Chorus: He won't consent? Extremely queer He must...