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...depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley: "I am not a fanciful man, but when I saw those paintings, the whole atmosphere of the room changed. It was as if those pictures were waiting...
Acting as though they were discovering and uncovering a pile of dirty linen, four segregationist members of a congressional subcommittee last week launched a windy investigation into Washington's schools. It was no secret to anyone that the D.C. schools, which started integrating two years ago, were having their troubles. But the committeemen, headed by Georgia's Representative James C. Davis,* were clearly out to make a national noise about integration-and they made some noise...
...classmate wrote what happened in an essay called "The College Career of Johnny Rock": "When the team journeyed to Boston to play Harvard, John seated his men on stools at the Thorndike Hotel lunch counter. Here the prices were lower than in the dining room with its linen-draped tables and tip-conscious waiters. Another time, when one of the players asked John for a pair of new shoelaces, he had to answer this one: 'What did you do with the pair I gave you last week...
...Wichita, Kans. in the '20s. he decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen. He got his shiny counters, but his hound's-tooth countermen were hard to come by. After a couple of trips to the laundry, their 35? white linen caps looked like old socks-shrunken, grey and frayed. Said Ingram: Why not paper caps...
...James A. Linen...