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...Harlem bar and is greeted by friendly smiles, not because of what he has done for his race (the barflies probably don't know who he is), but because they know him as a man who tells funny stories about cotton hands and baseball games and "that little ol' boy down in Texas." He walks into the Supreme Court and is greeted by respectful nods, not because he is a crusader, but because the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court know they can speak to Thurgood Marshall as lawyer to lawyer...
Cowboy Cinemactor Gene Autry galloped into Houston recently to whoop up the city's annual livestock show and rodeo. One day between performances, ol' Gene, ever alert to evil deeds on the screen, dozed off in his dressing room. While he snored, two small boys sneaked in, played with his pistols, tramped around in his fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled...
...Sassafras River, Md. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents arrested four duck hunters for exceeding the daily limit and baiting too close to their blind, discovered that among the embarrassed group were Arthur H. Brice, chairman of the state's Department of Tidewater Fisheries and the Board ol Natural Resources, and Amos Creighton, Brice's No. 1 assistant...
...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...
...shmoky ol' lamp wuz burnin' bright In Finnigin's shanty all that night- Bilin' down his repoort, wuz Finnigin- An' he writed this here: "Musther Flannigan: Off agin, on agin, Gone agin.-Finnigin...