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Thus equipped, President Emory Burke, 31-year-old Atlanta draftsman and high-school graduate, began drumming up recruits. Secretary Homer L. Loomis Jr., 32, was an avid assistant. A war veteran and socialite son of a wealthy New York lawyer ("where I learned to hate Jews and Negroes"), Loomis moved to Atlanta last winter with the intention of "starting something." Although the loose-mouthed rantings of Yankee Loomis were hotly denounced by civic-minded Atlantans, he was quickly able to find a following. His formula: "We tell the people what they want to hear. We excite them. Then we organize...
Before the lightning could strike, Atlanta police swooped down on the crowd. Lectured Police Chief M. A. Hornsby: "I want to tell you once and for all ... the Atlanta police department is policing this town." Four of the leaders, including disgruntled Homer L. Loomis Jr. and Whitman, were hustled off to jail, booked for disorderly conduct and "inciting a riot...
Lady Windermere's Fan (by Oscar Wilde; produced by Homer Curran in association with Russell Lewis & Howard Young) is second-rate Wilde and 54 years old. Its always trumpery plot, fitted out with soliloquies and asides, has become the quaint tosh of which burlesques are made. Its dialogue can be high-flown as well as sharp-cut, and some of its epigrams are distinctly tarnished...
...hierarchy of A.A. are President Edward A. Hayes, lawyer, American Legion big shot and onetime National Commander, unsuccessful candidate for the Illinois governorship in 1940; Treasurer W. Homer Hartz, Chicago businessman and former president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association...
...Rotund, romantic Lieut. Henri-Marie Beyle-who had never ridden a horse or seen a battle-hoisted his huge rump into the saddle and galloped off to war. His armor included two pistols, a large saber and the works of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Racine and Moliere...