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...might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look at Your Own Child | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

Over the years, Sheriff McCall has built up quite a reputation for himself on the Negro question. In 1951 he made national news by shooting two Negro suspects in the Groveland, Fla., rape case. This fall he took up the cause of the race-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, was warmly welcomed by the N.A.A.W.P.'s Organizer Bryant Bowles as an "expert" in race relations. For such an expert, the case of the Platts was made to order. McCall decided to pay them a little visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look at Your Own Child | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...Oregon's Multnomah County, Mrs. Edith Green, 44, who was named Oregon's "outstanding girl" 28 years ago, lived up to her early promise. She defeated Republican Tom McCall, who had, in turn, won over G.O.P. Incumbent Homer Angell in the primary election. Mrs. Green, a trailer-court operator, got Portland's labor vote, despite the fact that McCall stressed his own union membership (in the television and radio artists' union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The West | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...Lynda and kissed her. Then, beaming, he turned to greet Lynda's sister and brothers, her mother and her father, Willard Widerberg, 34, a seventh-grade teacher from De Kalb, Ill., who had just been named "Teacher of the Year" by the U.S. Office of Education and McCall's magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Ain't I Lucky? | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...more than three weeks Arnold and McCall talked to disk jockeys and teenagers, practiced bop talk around the office. When they first tried the routine on Brigadier General Joseph C. Moffitt, commanding officer of the Colorado Air Guard (the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing), he didn't quite dig the parradiddle. "He thought we had flipped our beanies. He was real square." But when he heard the first tape recording, the general "was real sent. He felt them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Real Cool Yonder | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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