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...toss footballs on the campus and tack Esquire calendars to his walls, because the College counts this as part of school spirit. But he can't take a date anywhere except gymnasium dances and juke-box joints until the middle of his sophomore year, when he gets into one of the seventeen eating and social clubs. Unless he's in the unlucky ten percent...
Buckshot for a Juke Joint. The sheriff let himself down on the steps and talked softly. "You know that when you elected me, I was sworn to uphold the law," he said. "And I have to protect my prisoners." Anyway, he added, the prisoners had been rushed off to another jail for safekeeping. (A third suspect was in the jail at the time, but was sneaked off later...
...rode off, and almost broke up. Just for the hell of it, though, in the little fanning town of Groveland, 65 miles from Tampa and not far from Willie and Norma Padgett's house, the men with shotguns pumped 15 loads of buckshot into a Negro-owned juke joint. Then they looked around for more Negroes-but the 400 residents of Groveland's Negro district had been carted to safety by white citizens who feared what was coming...
...started Sunday night, when Sheriff George C. Hatcher was waked by a Negro. He was bleeding across the chest. "Picky Pie Hill done did me over at the New Harlem Club in Mclntyre," he said. The sheriff jumped into his car and headed for the tin-roofed Negro juke joint four miles away...
...yearned for a new convertible with the top down-something with the weight of a cruiser and the look of a juke box. But he backed out of the garage in whatever car he had and set out. There were a million places...