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...whom. Roused to easy brutality, the police murder in turn an innocent Negro shepherd, and when his wife humbly asks for his body, the heartbreaking request is turned down; she is given three days to leave the house where she has spent her life. So much for the meek. But Author Paton deals not only with those who dare not fight back. In Debbie Go Home, a young colored girl dreams of the party, a sop to her people really, which the white administrator of the province has organized. It promises only a false happiness, but her mother wants...
...printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...
...spent 44 of his 53 years with the agency as president and chief executive officer, was finally retired as board chairman. By virtue of a decision to leave the chairman's spot vacant, the vice-chairmanships of two of Resor's top hands were also eliminated: Samuel Meek, 66, who has run Thompson's international operation for 36 years, and Henry C. Flower Jr., 64, a 33-year Thompson veteran. Both Flower and Meek will continue with the agency as directors and members of the pension fund. But a rush of younger blood has taken over Thompson...
...daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley was a "hit-and-run" doctor, he obligingly admitted to the charge. When they complained about his arrogance, Irish Catholic Dooley replied: "I know of but one meek, humble man who accomplished anything. That was more than 1,900 years ago-and I'm not so sure he was meek and humble." Then, in August, 1959, Dooley underwent chest surgery at New York's Memorial Hospital for melanoma-a rapidly diffusing form of cancer that...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Night of the Meek, with Art Carney as a department-store Santa Claus...