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Last month, things broke Hogjaw's way. His opportunity began with a simple bit of Negro baiting at a sharecropper's cabin near the town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) in central Mississippi. Three drunken bully boys-an ex-convict and moonshiner named Leon Turner and two brothers, Malcolm and Wendell Whitt-broke into the cabin of a Negro named Thomas Harris. They attempted to rape his wife, stole household effects and terrorized his family. A few days later, after the Negro's neighbors complained, the trio was arrested and held for trial...
They decided to "get" the sharecropper. Using a spoon and a beer opener, they chipped mortar away from the bricks of their cell in the ancient Attala County jail at Kosciusko. One night they broke out, armed themselves, got loose-mouthed and hot-eyed drunk on white lightning corn liquor, and then headed for the Negro's cabin again...
...Popular. How many comrades in the rowdy new "peoples' democracies" of Eastern Europe felt the same? In Warsaw the jittery Yugoslav Embassy had received a flood of congratulatory telegrams-unsigned. Good students of history, the men of the Kremlin must have heard other echoes: the names of Kossuth, Kosciusko and other heroes of national independence. Here was the sharp point of their dilemma. For the great incandescent fact of the "Affair Tito" was simply this: like Tito, many a non-Russian Red still wanted to think of himself as a Yugoslav, Pole, Czech or Hungarian and not just...
Collector's Item. In Little Rock, Forrest City and Marianna, Ark. and in Kosciusko, Miss., police searched for the pipe-organ "repairmen" who had stolen pipes from organs in each of the four towns...
...telephone strike. Even that strike seemed to be crumbling around the edges. A.T. & T. claimed it was handling four-fifths of the normal number of local calls, that long-distance service was up to 35%. Telephone workers were beginning to straggle back in many places: twelve in Kosciusko, Miss.; 1,500 Commercial Telephone Workers Union members in New Jersey, pending arbitration and a constitutional test of the state's drastic new anti-strike law (TIME, April 21); so many in the South that Southern Bell had removed emergency restrictions from long-distance calls...