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...Baptists took it over for a trifling $300,000 (current evaluation: about $11,000,000 ), and converted it into one of the most luxurious church centers in the U.S.: an 81 -room hotel was already standing, the "largest barn in Wisconsin" became an 800-seat auditorium, an old hog barn became a 22-bedroom residence and dormitory. The result was a kind of apogee of the nature-loving, creature-comfortable Christianity for which the U.S. is noted. "Beauty, godliness and away-from-the-city fellowship," according to Smith, lead Green Lakers to "a closer walk with God" (in the words...
...asked to come to Manhattan to straighten out a little matter with his exwife, Marion Mill Preminger. She wants $48,800, which she claims is due her under their 1949 separation and alimony agreements. While she endures a "virtual hand-to-mouth existence," he lives high off the hog, she charged. "It is no secret that [he and his second wife] enjoy an outstanding reputation for lavishness in entertainment...
...Staff members erected a facsimile of a Japanese shrine on the lawn out front, found a Japanese orchestra to play on the night of the opening. Expecting the biggest crowds since the museum's opening 20 years ago, Director Richard Fuller explained: "We have had to go whole hog, but having the show is a great privilege...
...principle that Negroes must have "separate but equal" facilities* was an empty phrase a decade ago; today, it is rapidly becoming reality. Most Southerners feel that unless they make "separate but equal" a fact, the courts are sure to saddle them with "whole hog" rulings, i.e., complete equality. Many states are hastily building fine new Negro schools and hospitals, although from a purely economic standpoint, "separate but equal" schools are insanely wasteful. Most Southerners no longer sneer at the educated Negro as "biggety"; many want to help the Negro get a better education, better jobs and better housing...
However, some Southerners are afraid that this formula may prove too little and too late. Southerners complain that there are too many "whole hog or nothing" Negroes. This is only partly true. No Southern Negro seriously wants or expects complete equality overnight. But all Southern Negroes want it as an ultimate goal?and they want to see faster progress towards that goal. They have become suspicious of "gradualism." They want to know, as one Negro leader puts it: "When does Old Man Gradualism run out?" The Southern Negro's mood may be summed up by the case of the successful...