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...five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They Got Me Covered" has two advantages over previous Hope vehicles...
...19th is the most decorated outfit in the U.S. Army. At its last parade Major General Robert Olds, commander of the Second Air Force, added a decoration to every man of the Group: a blue bar framed in a gold laurel band which each member is entitled to wear because the Group has been cited at least twice...
...last October that a mob of men broke with suspicious ease into the strong Laurel, Miss. jail and snatched up Howard Wash, dark and worried because he had killed his white employer in alleged self-defense. The mob brushed politely past Deputy Sheriff Holder, past the open steel doors and heavy bars. They took Howard Wash away with them to Welborn's Bridge and left him there-hanging limp like a broken crow, his slack toes pointed down at the drying creek...
...Laurel was not too upset at the dark deed. It is a William Falkner kind of town, that could be the locale of any of Falkner's novels about the passions the South breeds on cotton planting and corn in the jug and native ideas of separating black from the white. But the local newspaper, the Leader-Call, ran a denunciatory editorial about the murder-the third lynching that month for Mississippi-and Governor Paul B. Johnson vowed punishment for the people who had led the mob and, in the words of the Federal jury, inflicted on Howard Wash...
...clock that night, 100 men with rifles and shotguns swarmed outside the Laurel jail. Town authorities telephoned Governor Paul B. Johnson, outspoken opponent of mob violence. The Governor dispatched State police, two companies of State guards. He also called two Laurel ministers, asked them to try to stop the mob. But by the time ministers and militia arrived, it was too late. Next morning's sun showed the body of Howard Wash hanging from a bridge over Tallahoma Creek...