Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph McGill, the Editor of the Atlanta Constitution, described the incident as a "harvest of defiance of courts and the encouragement of citizens to defy the law on the part of many Southern politicians." He warned that "it is not possible to preach lawlessness and then restrict it. To be sure, no one said go bomb a Jewish Temple or a school. But let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their hands...
...overt act of this and other bombings in the South during recent months is a product of two trends. One, as McGill and others point out, is the high-minded, quasi-legal defiance of the Supreme Court decisions by Southern political leaders. Their actions lead to violent defiance of law and order by those who lack the intelligence to act in a legal manner. As McGill observed, "You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old, old story.... When the wolves of hate are loosed...
...high school classmate recalls. "We figured he'd be a great lawyer or politician." After high school, Charlie worked as a department-store furniture salesman until a prosperous older cousin, living in Montreal, insisted that gifted Goren go to college. Charlie moved in with the cousin, enrolled at McGill University law school. After finishing up the regular three-year course, stayed on for a postgraduate year before going back to Philadelphia and bluffing his way through the Pennsylvania bar exam. "I had to bluff," he says. "I didn't know anything about Pennsylvania law." A fellow lawyer...
...Last Laugh. They laughed when he first sat down to play. Goren acutely recalls a day at McGill when a girl friend asked him if he played bridge. "I knew that girls play bridge in the afternoon," says Goren, "and I didn't see why I couldn't. I sat down to play and made a complete ass out of myself." Goren's girl laughed at him-and thin-skinned Charlie Goren, late of Philadelphia's slums, was no man to be laughed at. "It was like putting a knife through me," he says...
...some students met representatives of McGill University--in what is generally recognized as the legitimate predecessor of modern football. Since McGill played under rugby rules, the teams agreed to meet twice, first playing the "Boston game" and then the McGill rugby. Harvard won the first match easily, and held the Canadians to a scoreless tie at their own game. A half-dollar admission was charged, and the $250 collected was used by both teams for a drunken orgy...