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Early Life: Quit Roman Catholic parochial school at 16, worked as apprentice typographer, grape picker, stevedore, professional bicycle racer, played football. Briefly a member (at 13) of Jacques Doriot's Fascist Parti Populaire Francais...
...After 14 months of bitter bickering, the Lake County (Fla.) school board finally closed the case of Fruit Picker Allan Platt's five school-age, part-Indian children who were falsely declared to be Negroes and were thus denied the right to attend a white school (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). Since the board found that it could not legally prove that the Platts are Negroes, it decided not to appeal the decision of a circuit-court judge allowing the Platts to attend whatever white schools in Florida they choose. ¶ The Regents of the University...
...motivated by the sole desire to resolve with honor and efficiency the multiple and urgent problems facing his community." From all over Spain, letters of congratulation poured in, but for Don Agustin, onetime mayor of Santisteban, the kindest words of all were spoken by a weather-beaten olive picker in his town. "Don Agustin," said the old man, "at last justice has been done. The people are very happy...
...from the serious to the absurd. His dignity can slide easily into arrogance and his humility into self-abasement, but not for long. Humor-his own humor-brings him back toward center. Marshall will listen so avidly to his colleagues' scholarship that he has been called a brain-picker, but he trades jokes with no man. Around him, the ceaseless flow of anecdotes is all outward. Buffoonery relaxes his tense spiritual muscles. Buffoonery and work. After the long, argumentative conferences, after the horseplay and the backslapping, when he goes home to his lonely Harlem apartment, he becomes Thurgood Marshall...
...Klux Klan and race-baiting Bryant Bowles, and earned herself a clutch of journalism awards and scores of enemies. Although the K.K.K. burned a cross on her lawn and poisoned her dog, Editor Reese was not intimidated. She continued to play stories on the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954) who were ousted from a white school in Mount Dora on the ground that they were Negroes, although they claimed to be of Irish-Indian descent.* Last week Editor Reese was facing a new kind of challenge. An opposition weekly, the Mount Dora Herald...