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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ordinarily, anywhere in this nation, this book would be accepted as having no special significance. These are, however, not ordinary times. Meddling by outside do-gooders has stirred racial tensions here in the South to an alltime high and damaged relations between the races to an extent that will never be undone. Despite Author Williams' naive and sarcastic assertion, I know, and you should know, that this book is readily adaptable to planting in the mind of a child receptiveness to the idea of marriage between white and black human beings. No responsible person will deny that just such...
...N.A.A.C.P. and others, the New York City board of education dropped Helen Bannerman's Little Black Sambo (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945) and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from its lists of books "approved" for use in New York City's elementary and junior high schools. Tom Sawyer passes the board's muster...
...women well remembered and long forgotten. The criterion for being on the cover was, and has always been, that they were news. After the Willy Brandt cover (May 25), the Berliner Zeitung in East Berlin said sarcastically that to be on TIME'S cover is "a high honor generally reserved only for faithful servants of American bank and stock-market barons." Quicker than anyone could say verdammte Lüge, the USIS put up a window display in West Berlin (see cut) that told the Germans, including the thousands of East Berliners who shop there, what all except Communists...
...childhood. Scarborough, an Air Force enlisted man, is an orphan whose mother was shot to death in a barroom brawl when he was seven and whose father committed suicide the same year. Stoutamire quit school after the eighth grade, has had a brush with juvenile authorities. Beagles is a high-school senior, the son of a truck driver and a waitress...
Government farm-support programs have also hatched new troubles. When controls on acreage cut the incomes of cotton and tobacco farmers, they went into the egg business. In addition to encouraging this new competition, the Government farm program has forced egg raisers' feed costs sky-high through propping up the price of most grains. Although egg prices today average 25? a dozen on the farm, back to the level of 1941, Eastern eggmen today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls...