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...Augustine Negroes asked U.S. District Judge Bryan Simpson in Jacksonville to order compliance by 15 motels and restaurants in their city. Going to the key issue of enforce ment, the plaintiffs sought an injunction against the owners' alleged coercers - a troop of white toughs headed by Holsted ("Hoss") Manucy, a convicted moonshiner of Majorcan descent. Manucy, who runs something called the Ancient City Hunting Club, denies membership in the Ku Klux Klan but calls it "a wonderful organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Hoss Unhorsed | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Ordered to take the stand, Hoss Manucy parried one question after another with the same evasive words: "I'm not gonna answer that at this time." Manucy refused to admit not only that he had ever threatened anyone, but also that he even knew his own sons, five of them being his codefendants. "You don't mean you don't know the people at this time," snapped Judge Simpson, "just that you don't want to answer at this time." Said Manucy meekly: "Yes, Your Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Hoss Unhorsed | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...Robert Graves explained it last week to the American Academy and National Institute of Arts and Letters in Manhattan, a battered brass cooking pot can have baraka, but not a new spun-aluminum one; an old pair of trousers may have it, or a poem, or a wonderful one-hoss shay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baraka | 6/2/1961 | See Source »

File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A double-gaited educational hoss that runs like a'critter out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Confidential. The subject is Edgar Allan Poe-not his poetry and prose, but his alcoholism and drug addiction. Professor-Author (The Histrionic Mr. Poe) N. Bryllion Fagin conducts the inquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Paris with Audrey Hepburn (Love in the Afternoon) and Manhattan with Suzy Parker (Ten North Frederick). To celebrate the occasion, the producer has given him De Luxe Color and even a welcome home from one of the other characters, who says admiringly: "You look good back up on that hoss." At 57, Coop does look fine; it is the picture that needs to get up off its haunches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

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