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Last week, after nearby Greenwood's enterprising Morning Star had broken the story of Mississippi's latest lynching, prosecutors in Holmes County (80% Negro) moved with commendable speed. Before a jampacked courtroom, District Attorney Harold Dyer Jr. accused Jeff Dodd, his son and three others of Leon McAtee's murder. Said he: "The citizen of Holmes County holds a white man accountable if he commits a crime, the same as he holds a Negro accountable...
Under the wing of Holding Carter, Mississippi's forthright Pulitzer Prizewinning editor, three 28-year-old veterans last month launched the Greenwood (Miss.) Morning Star. In their maiden issue they offered readers some pin money: $1 for each week's best news...
Last week they got their money's worth. A tipster called the editors, whispered "There's some Greenwood men going to be charged with the murder of a nigger," and hung up. Four days later, after checking the lead through three Delta counties, Managing Editor Charles Pou ran it down, got it confirmed by Prosecuting Attorney Pat Barrett...
...Pirates. The first Hardy book to carry a U.S. imprint was his third novel, Under the Greenwood Tree. This was pirated by Henry Holt in 1873-i.e., it was copied from the original London edition without so much as a by-your-leave. Holt, however, immediately wrote to Hardy, explaining what he had done and promising that "you shall participate in the profits." This was high-class publishing in the 18703. Until international copyright became effective at the end of the 19th Century, publishers on both sides of the Atlantic (especially on this side) simply took whatever they liked...
...Other Camp. Twenty miles away at an abandoned resort hotel on Greenwood Lake, Pittsburgh's 182-lb. Billy Conn looked good - in training. There were no gin rummy games in his camp any more: Billy had lost $1,800 to his brother in less than a week. Now they played quick two-handed poker games, anteing $20 bills, and raising with $205. Occasionally Billy commanded Manager Johnny Ray: "Gimme another hundred." Said Manager Ray: "We're just a bunch of plain, ordinary bums having a good time...