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...about McMichael is that he is a "naive, noble Christian." Said Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Detroit's Central Methodist Church: "His is a crystal-clear Christianity which we must cherish. He is the one symbol on whom we can all agree. He is our flag. If you haul down this flag, you virtually capitulate the liberal cause in the Methodist Church...
...vote of 50 to 6, the federation decided not to haul down Jack McMichael. Before adjourning, the federation attended to some other matters. With McMichael's vigorous backing, the convention's Commission on Prophetic Religion and the Struggle for Peace reported out a resolution calling for U.S. recognition of Communist China. But there were objections. Said a California layman: "I couldn't conscientiously vote for immediate recognition while we have our boys in Korea giving their lives and limbs." Said the Rev. William B. Waltmire of Madison, Wis.: "It would be sheer political idiocy . . . at this time...
...last month Ingram stopped at the farm of Aubrey Boswell, a white neighbor. He wanted to borrow a trailer to haul his hay. Ingram saw one of the Boswell children walking toward the tobacco barn carrying a hoe. He walked across the road, he said, and through a field knee-high in corn, looking for Boswell. When he got closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa...
Pound Foolish. In Oblong, Ill., on being presented with an $825 bill for home-insulation materials, retired Mailman W. R. Wall took the salesman to his bedroom, pointed to a pile of 110,000 pennies, paid up when the salesman returned with a truck to haul off the 550-lb. remittance...
...fact, Novelist Morris fishes so quietly, and in such common waters, that the uncommon quality of his haul may easily be overlooked. He has an insight which tells him that simple minds are only as simple as they are thought to be. Father is not just a stupid, henpecked husband, but a stifled human nature battling forlornly in middle age with the first problem of childhood: to establish an identity. Mother is not merely a domineering woman, but a terrifying archetype of the man-hater, a domestic tyrant whose methods could teach something to Machiavelli, perhaps even to Freud...