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...Hall and 11 other communists were indicted under the Smith Act on charges of advocating the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He jumped bail and fled to Mexico, was captured in a border motel, and spent several years in a maximum security cell at Leavenworth, right beside Machine Gun Kelly. Such exploits built a mythic aura around Hall, who, two years after his release in 1957, became general secretary of a party in turmoil. Gone were the halcyon days of 1932 when a communist candidate for President garnered 102,000 votes. Between McCarthy's witch-hunts and Nikita Khrushchev...
...families in theater lobbies; Tillis' wife, for one, sells candy. Most of the performers sit onstage at intermission to sign autographs, and violinist Shoji Tabuchi heads to the parking lot after his show to wave goodbye to the tour buses. Prices are right too. You can still get a motel room for $40, and there are 6,000 campsites in town. Says Mary Nell King of Pocahontas, Ark.: "I've seen one Broadway show in the past 10 years. But we can get to Branson two or three times a year...
...there is part of the taste problem: the museum has been constructed within the rebuilt shell of Memphis' Lorraine Motel, site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. At first King's family dissociated themselves from the museum because of this macabre legacy, though Coretta Scott King relented and appeared at the dedication ceremonies in early July, receiving a $15,000 honorarium. Yet there remains something troubling about turning the Lorraine into a tourist attraction...
That noon at the Peter Rabbit diner I met Brisket, who owns the big motel by the interstate, and Graftwell, the paving contractor. They were having lunch with the Town Fool, one of our town's two registered Democrats. It was the Fool who in 1988 urged that the Democrats nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on the theory that F.D.R. at room temperature was smarter than Bob Dole or George Bush at 98.6. The Constitution, he had pointed out, requires that a President be native born and at least 35 years old, but does not insist that he be alive. After...
...look here," said Brisket, "three lousy ski seasons in a row, then the banks all catch cold, and the legislature starts talking about broad-based taxes. Then of course we get gypsy moths. We gotta have candidates." Brisket values the two-party system that fills his motel with political staffers...