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Democrats and white Southerners in general found the new political power of blacks in the Republican party supremely distasteful. As Frederick Douglass notes the comments of one: "'The maddest, most unscrupulous and infamous revolution in history has snatched the power from the hands of the race which settled the country...and transferred it to its former slaves, an ignorant and feeble race...
...public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...
...seatmate Charlie O. (for Oral). He is not just a minor nuisance, but the personification of a major menace. People today tell complete strangers things they once wouldn't have confessed to a priest, a doctor or a close friend: their crudest fears; their most shameful inadequacies; their maddest fantasies. We are witnessing something like the death of reticence...
...Texas, of all places, that liberated Willie. One night after a bout of fraternity hazing at the University of Texas, "I got mad," he reports, "probably the maddest I had ever been in my whole life-at homesickness, at blond majorettes, at gat-toothed Dallas girls, at twangy accents, at my own helpless condition. I'm better than this sorry place, I said to myself several times, and be damned if I didn't believe...
...Wondrous World of W.R.G." Soon Sunday supplements, weeklies, even the prestige business magazines were weighing in with more talk about "the most talked-about agency." Last August Syndicated Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard went so far as to coo that Mary Wells's "soft, thrilling voice makes the maddest ideas seem perfectly possible"-extravagant praise, since at the time W.R.G. had just begun to produce its first...