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...poll of residents conducted yesterday by Connie Glaser '59 shows a majority willing to contribute to the purchase of a set. Emily B. Lacey, dean of residence, has assured Moors Hall president Lee Ginsburg '57 that the Administration will not oppose the innovation if it receives approval at a full dormitory meeting after the vacation...
...Leverett House Dance Committee need fear no repercussions from the Radcliffe Administration if it chooses an Annex student as "Quaker Queen" tonight, Miss Emily B. Lacey, Radcliffe dean of residence, asserted this week...
...people of Lacey, Miss, had reason to be proud of themselves and of their town. After a history stained by lynching and violence, they had acquired a new sheriff who was outspokenly determined to apply justice equally to blacks and whites. The leading politician, Kerney Woolbright, backed the sheriff's policy. So did Jason Hunt, the town's rich man. Even Bootlegger Jimmy Tallant was willing to accept this manifestation of the "new South"-provided his business was left alone...
Before he dies, Woolbright and Hunt have fled his side, the town has cried for his blood, and Lacey's Negroes have again heard the growls of the lynch mob. The brief reign of the "new South" in Lacey dies also, leaving the survivors with nothing more than bitter knowledge of failure. Author Spencer, who was born and raised in Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins...
Trouble at Lacey builds up like a thundercloud as its people, white and black, find the knot of race too tangled for unraveling by words and seek relief in action -no matter how blind or brutal. The voice at the back door sounds insistently throughout the book; it is the plaintive, smoky voice of the Negro asking his eternal "Why?" and getting, as always, a dusty answer...