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...spring training, the slurs continued. Once, after watching Robinson pull off a dazzling play in the field, Rickey exclaimed to Montreal Manager Clay Hopper, "That was a superhuman play!" Hopper, a Mississippian, drawled, "Mr. Rickey, do you really think a nigger's a human being?" Hopper was also doubtful about how well Robinson would fare against big-league pitching. Before one exhibition game, former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Paul Derringer volunteered to help Hopper, an old friend, find out. "Tell you what I'm going to do, Clay," Derringer said. "I'm going to knock him down...
...often Eudora Welty has been thought of as a Southern lady and a spinster who wrote genteel something-or-others while her fellow Mississippian William Faulkner manfully immortalized the state. The truth is that ever since she published A Curtain of Green in 1941 she has been producing stories and novels of wonderful proportion and symmetry, written with a high sense of comedy, immense tenderness and no sentimentality at all. Their collective qualities this month won her the prestigious Gold Medal for Fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters...
ACROSS the U.S., there are 25 million impoverished, deprived and misunderstood Americans, black and white, who like that Mississippian are generally scorned, patronized and looked upon as psychologically sick and morally deficient. Yet to Harvard Child Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who knows these forgotten citizens?and their children?far better than most Americans do, that stereotype is dead wrong. After more than a decade of studying and living with sharecroppers, migrants, mountaineers, poor blacks and working-class whites, Coles has concluded that most are astonishingly healthy in mind and remarkably courageous in spirit. He believes that they possess unrecognized strengths that...
...Buddies. In her eight months in the House, she has made that presence felt with a characteristic indifference to protocol, notably the tacit understanding that a freshman Congressman ranks slightly above a page boy. It is already part of Capitol Hill mythology that when the courtly House doorkeeper, Mississippian William ("Fish Bait") Miller, asked her not to wear one of her trademark broadbrim hats onto the House floor, she briskly replied, "Go f -yourself." Actually, Fish Bait says, the exchange was jocular; they are "big buddies...
Cavett and his wife, Actress Carrie Nye, live in a handsome six-room East Side apartment. Carrie Nye, now 33, is a willowy Mississippian who met Cavett when both were at Yale and married him in 1964 after a sporadic court ship. She says: "Dick thought I was Zelda Fitzgerald, and I thought he was the squarest person I ever met. I remember thinking that he was attractive but what a pity he was such a bore." She pauses, then adds in a voice as sultry as a hot night on the old plantation: "In the intervening years he became...