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...West's most chilling story, a man is arrested for hitchhiking in the town of Chanceyville, Ga. The poor fellow has two strikes against him: not only is he a New Yorker with an Italian name; he is an abstract artist to boot. When he can not pay the fine, the beefy sheriff orders him to draw obscene nudes. When he finishes, the sheriff stops drooling, smashes all the bones in the artist's hands and knocks him senseless. Says the indignant sheriff: "That'll teach them bastards to mess around Chanceyville gals...
...Although no detective testified to any sort of misbehavior by Muriel, Reynolds sued her for divorce, charging "prior cruelty," which Muriel hotly denied. She presented an affectionate letter from Reynolds to prove that he had not felt himself very cruelly treated. The suit was first heard in Mclntosh County, Ga., which includes Sapelo Island. Reynolds' spending habits make for one of Mclntosh's biggest industries, and Muriel did not do well before county jurors. They awarded Reynolds, who did not appear in court, his divorce, and allowed Muriel only $1,042 a month in permanent alimony...
...card parties are certainly a nuisance, but by no means the worst. In Phenix City and Montgomery, Ala., and in Butte, Mont., Columbus, Ga., and Greenville, S., city fathers have put through ordinances requiring retailers who carry Communist-made goods to buy a permit (up to $5,000) and to post signs in their stores proclaiming that they are "licensed to sell Communist merchandise.'' In some cases, local Chambers of Commerce privately shudder over the consequences, but feel helpless to do anything about the pressures...
Barreling down U.S. 17 toward Florida in a snappy grey Lincoln convertible Private Lucky Earl Beckwith, U.S.M.C. zoomed into the hamlet of Woodbine, Ga., was forthwith halted by the cops. A check revealed the real owner to be not so Lucky; he was New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
Kennedy also paid his personal respects to the men of the Army's 1st Armored ("Old Ironsides") Division at Fort Stewart, Ga. During the U.S. buildup toward a possible invasion of Cuba, the division had been secretly moved 1,300 miles from Fort Hood, Texas. The operation took two weeks, with 40 trains carrying equipment and some men, while 13,000 other soldiers were airlifted...