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...people of the Achewa, Tonga and Angoni tribes of British-protected Nyasaland are poor fieldworkers with neither money nor power. Yet, mite by mite, they collected $5,000 to send five of their chiefs to London with a message for the "great white mother," Queen Elizabeth. The message was a protest against the British government's plan to federate Nyasaland with Northern and Southern Rhodesia into a Central African dominion (TIME, Feb. 9). "We are afraid Southern Rhodesia will swallow us down," said their spokesman, Chief Somba...
Samuel Francis Smith did not guess just how popular his America* would be or that it would become the nation's best-known patriotic hymn. "Such as it is " he wrote years later, "I am glad to have contributed this mite to the cause of American freedom...
Last week, after 121 years, Samuel Smith was still contributing his mite, but this time to another sort of cause. Three months ago Brooklyn Lawyer Arthur Levitt, a member of New York City's school board, proposed that New York schoolchildren sing parts of Smith's anthem at the start of each day. Up until then the mention of God had been practically taboo in the public schools, and Levitt had offered his idea as a substitute for a regular morning prayer, to which secular groups strenuously objected. Last week after months of worried debate, the school board...
Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...
...with the word that Ball was out as president and that Krider was in. Sewell Avery let it be known that so far as he was concerned. Lawyer Ball had never got "comfortable" in his retailing job. But Ward employees gossiped that Stu Ball had simply become a mite too independent for the boss's liking. Out with Ball went Ward Treasurer Arthur Cahill, who was replaced by 42-year-old Assistant Controller Howard S. Kambestad. Said new President Krider calmly: "We regard these things as normal here. It goes on all the time...