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When he was 40, Music Critic Carl Van Vechten was disposed to quit writing critical essays because at that age, he believed, his "intellectual arteries" had hardened. The affliction apparently did him no harm: after that he wrote seven novels about what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week...
...presence of a big (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.) cop named Eugene Smith (TIME. Aug. 24). Police Chief Smith and his squads were ready for the mob leaders, picked them out one by one and sent them off to jail in paddy wagons. Amid cries of "Nigger lover!'' and "Coward!" Gene Smith, who never bothered about philosophizing on segregation issues but merely prided himself on being a tough law-enforcement man, handled the explosive situation calmly, finally stopped the mobs with fire hoses. Many people never forgave Smith for his stand...
...against the compulsion to serve God: "You have to take hold and put temptation behind you. If you baptize once, you'll be doing it the rest of your life. If it's an idiot this time, the next time it's liable to be a nigger.'' Now, at his uncle's grave, he throws himself to the ground and hears the order: GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY...
...back his cartoons with the faces blacked in, or scrawled: "You are a Negro, aren't you, Mr. Baldy?" Recently, a last-ditch racist type, learning for the first time that Baldy's full name was Baldowski, wrote angrily: "I always wondered why you were such a Nigger lover. Now I know. You're one of those foreigners." As a matter of fact, Moderate Baldy was born in Augusta...
...House of Commons, had the presumption to dine with a black M.P. in Salisbury's topflight Meikle's Hotel, Southern Rhodesians were scandalized at her bringing along a "munt" (from a Bantu word for man, used by Rhodesians as a rough equivalent of the U.S.'s "nigger"). Last week Southern Rhodesia was hard at it again with Labor, this time over a tall, aggressive, 33-year-old M.P. from England named John Thomson Stonehouse...