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...stunt that may appeal to fanciers of literary ventriloquism. Like Tom Sawyer, Davey Burnie is an orphan with a pesky aunt who keeps scrubbing out his ears. Like Huck, Davey has a Negro pal, name of Commercial Appeal. Unfortunately. Commercial Appeal is killed in an early burst of Ku Klux Klan violence in Kentucky in the 1880s and cannot sail down the Mississippi with Davey. But down the Mississippi Davey does go, with his Uncle Jim, a cigar-smoking Civil War veteran and college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates...
Klan to Cattle Dips. That course has had its pitfalls. In its preoccupation with political judgments, the News stands in some danger of being a newspaper whose strength lies mostly in its shout. Its last major crusade came in 1924, when it helped chase the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas, although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert...
...Import Bank-and the Senate did not like it a bit. Alabaman Meriwether was an acknowledged segregationist and 1950 campaign manager for Senatorial Candidate John Crommelin, racist and anti-Semite. Oregon's Wayne Morse suggested -and Meriwether stoutly denied-that he was a reformed alcoholic and a onetime Ku KIux Klansman. Meriwether's political know-how and his experience in the insurance business seemed to be his only positive qualifications...
During the worst part of his harassment by Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council members, "the only people in Savannah who were of comfort were three Protestant ministers," Eisenman related. "The police would say, 'You're a good guy, Abe, and you shouldn't take up for niggers...
...long as I don't get too big, and in the North they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." And some is farcically broad, as when he tells about three white brothers called Ku, Klux and Klan, who once surrounded him in a restaurant saying. "You can't eat that chicken in here; whatever you do to that chicken, we're going to do to you." What did Gregory do? "I kissed the chicken...