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...about it. chaps-shall we try flying in?" With this impeccably cool remark, addressed to two Swedish U.N. pilots in the Congo. Major Richard Lawson made his debut as a British hero. As a backdrop for heroism, the U.N. of U Thant is not an entirely satisfactory substitute for the empire of Victoria, but the British press, starved for tales of British valor in distant places, splashed Lawson of Leopoldville all over the front pages. Henceforth, trumpeted the Daily Express, he would be "known to the world as Dick the Lionheart...
Standing 5 ft. 5 in. in his jungle boots. Lawson, 37, is a fair-haired, gentle-voiced graduate of Sandhurst. Recently he was temporarily transferred from the First Royal Tank Regiment serving in West Germany to the Nigerian army (trained by British officers). In December he volunteered for a three-month tour of duty with U.N. forces in the Congo. No sooner did Lawson arrive than his legend began to sprout...
...Martin Cherkasky (Director of Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx): "The A.M.A. Journal of March 5, 1960 carried a scientific article by Dr. Lawson Wilkins documenting 36 cases in which girl babies were so masculinized that they would have been reared as boys because their mothers were treated early in pregnancy with a synthetic hormone to reduce the risk of spontaneous abortion.* Yet for months afterward, the Journal carried advertisements for this drug, marketed by Parke, Davis & Co. as Norlutin, which contained no word of warning as to the possible catastrophic effects...
...Jackson terminal the crowds were hanging out of the windows of nearby buildings. "Get your teams ready," said Lawson. In pairs, the Freedom Riders walked into the "white" waiting room. A Jackson policeman politely asked two Negro girls to move on, and when they refused, arrested them for causing a disturbance. In similar fashion the remaining Freedom Riders-one white and eleven black-were arrested, including eight who actually entered the white rest room before being led away...
...James Morris Lawson Jr., 32, advocates the Gandhi-given tactics of nonviolent protest as a way of life for U.S. Negroes. Lawson does as he teaches. Born in Pennsylvania, he spent most of a year in a federal penitentiary as a conscientious objector, studied with Gandhi during his three years as a student missionary in India. Last June, over the protests of 112 members of the Vanderbilt faculty, Lawson was expelled from the university's divinity school (TIME, June 13, 1960) for advocating civil disobedience to fellow students who took part in Nashville's sit-in campaigns. Lawson...