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...traveling salesman's idea of Venus. Hers is an interesting face, not a vacant one. . . . Her hair looks as if she could have brushed and combed it herself, and not as if it were her habit to have a permanent after every cigaret. She gets along . . . nicely . . . without mink coats, a swan bed, a custom-built Cadillac, a costly and always unspotted negligee in which to help her butler do the housework. . . . This willingness to keep its expenses scaled to life's facts rather than its fantasies is ... what distinguishes the entire movie...
Then came more excited bulletins: state highway patrolmen had got the Negroes away from the mob. They had paused with them in Columbia, but there was no safety there-the white folks were still on edge, remembering the ugly outbreak in Mink Slide last spring (TIME, March 11). So the Negroes were taken to safe haven in Nashville. Many of the people of the Bluegrass Bowl and the Highland Rim felt better because a lynching had been averted...
While many a corporation was losing its shirt, Hollywood's studios were able to fit themselves out in the finest mink-lined sport shirts. Last year had been a record year. This month Paramount's President Barney Balaban declared that 1946 would be even better. This meant that profits would be in the supercolossal class of around $130,000,000-double last year's. And dividends might run as high as $42,000,000, almost double last year...
After the shooting, state troopers rounded up 104 Negroes, practically all of Mink Slide's male population, and grilled them mercilessly. Two were killed while "trying to escape." The troopers made a sizable shambles of Mink Slide before the list of suspects was arbitrarily narrowed from...
...astonishment of Lawyer Bumpus and almost everyone else, from Lawrenceburg to Mink Slide, the jurors took their oath seriously. Correspondent Vincent Sheean, who had covered the trial with mild hysteria, called the jury's action "the kind of thing that makes us realize the full splendor of our destiny as a nation...