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...could only have construed as dangerous and inflammatory. His voice was one of the loudest raised in protest against the handling of the controversial Groveland rape case in which four Negroes were accused of attacking a 17-year-old housewife, back in 1949. When Lake County. Sheriff Willis McCall killed one of the defendants and badly wounded another while transporting them, handcuffed, along a lonely road last November (TIME, Nov. 19), Moore went further: he campaigned openly for the prosecution of the sheriff. His family worried endlessly about his safety, but he was never harmed...
...Lonely Road. Last week Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall drove over to Raiford State Prison to pick up the boys and bring them back to Tavares for a hearing before the new trial. It was dark when Sheriff McCall and his deputy, James Yates, left the prison with the boys handcuffed together in the front seat. They drove to Weirsdale, where Deputy Yates picked up his own car and went on ahead-to look for lynchers' roadblocks, McCall explained later. Then, said McCall, a tire went flat. He got out to fix it. When McCall opened the car door...
...Attorney General Howard Mc-Grath sent FBI men to make an on-the-spot investigation to find out whether McCall's version or Irvin's was true. At week's end, a coroner's jury upheld Sheriff McCall, finding that he had fired in self-defense, and a state investigator displayed powder burns on McCall's coat sleeve which showed, he said, that McCall's arm was doubled up, indicating that there had been a struggle. But the FBI continued its own investigation...
Money Talks. In Portland, Ore., Lawson McCall, the governor's executive secretary, got up to speak, popped a cough drop into his mouth, noticed five minutes later that he was sucking a penny...
Better Living is the superproduct of Manhattan Promoter Edward W. Miller, the Supermarket Institute, representing some 5.000 U.S. stores, and McCall's, which provided $750,000, its printing plant and know-how. Miller raised another $750,000 from such private investors as Nelson Rockefeller and Clendenin Ryan (onetime owner of the American Mercury). Not till he had supermarket outlets for at least a million copies did Publisher Miller set his editorial staff to work. Said he: "Some people think there's a lot of quick money in this business. But you've got to have a good...