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...state court trial in a segregated jail; even the drunk tanks are generally separate, and the turnkeys are uniformly white. When he finally does go to trial, the Negro enters the courthouse that to him has become the symbol of all his afflictions. There may be a Negro janitor about the premises, but everyone else is white, from judges and prosecutors down to clerks. Though many Southern judges dispense justice with admirable evenhandedness, the judge the Negro faces may well be ruled by his own prejudice or, since he holds elective office, by community pressures. One demeaning custom, banned...
...white and sitting on a golden throne." A Dutch charwoman says: "God is a ghost floating in space." Screenwriter Edward Anhalt (Becket) says that "God is an infantile fantasy, which was necessary when men did not understand what lightning was. God is a cop-out." A Greek janitor thinks that God is "like a fiery flame, so white that it can blind you." "God is all that I cannot understand," says a Roman seminarian. A Boston scientist describes God as "the totality of harmony in the universe." Playwright Alfred muses: "It is the voice which says, 'It's not good...
...small-town South Dakota pharmacist who was bankrupted by the Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first of their four children, Humphrey went to graduate school and wrote his master's thesis on the New Deal. Settling in Minneapolis, where his first teaching job was for the WPA, he inevitably became...
...least efficient. More than half of the 248-man force consists of meagerly trained, patronage-appointed college students whose ambitions seldom em brace advancement in the gendarmerie (the annual turnover is 82%). At any rate, there was not a cop in sight last week when a Capitol janitor stabbed and robbed Republican James C. Cleveland of New Hampshire late at night in his office. Inevitably, the incident revived memories of the day in 1954 when four Puerto Rican nationalists gunned down five House members, and brought calls from Congressmen for a professional force. Protested Representative Paul Findley...
Born Restless. Born in 1912, the youngest of 15 children of a taciturn Kansas farmer, Parks began his search at 16, when his mother died and his family scattered. He worked as a busboy and a waiter, a piano player in a Minneapolis whorehouse and a janitor in a Chicago flophouse, a runner for a Harlem dope pusher, a dining-car waiter and a lumberjack for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He was so poor that he often slept on trolley cars, and he regularly raided trash barrels for discarded newspapers so that he could check the classifieds for jobs...