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When five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt first appeared at the white public school in Mount Dora, Fla., Principal D. D. Roseborough suspected that there might be trouble. Skins of some of the children were so brown that pupils and their parents wondered whether the children might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...
Psychologist Plank would not go so far as to say that science-fiction writers are "crazy" because they reflect schizophrenic trends. Rather, he argues, these signs are becoming more conspicuous in a mechanized civilization. Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate...
Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
...about whatever came to mind. Hitler's Secret Conversations is the stenographic record of these ramblings in the Führer's East Prussian and Russian headquarters between July 1941 and November 1944. They were taken down in shorthand by trusted party officials, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, then corrected and preserved by the Führer's factotum, SS Leader Martin Bormann.* Samples...
...Cooperstown, N.Y., Dizzy Dean, flamboyant fogball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals in the '305, joined Al Simmons, longtime (1924-44) batting great (lifetime average: .334) for ceremonies enshrining them in baseball's Hall of Fame. Dean, "an old Arkansas cotton picker" who turned into a grammar-mangling sports announcer after racking up 150 major league victories, 83 defeats, called it the "greatest honor" of his life. "I want to thank the good Lord," he drawled, "for giving me a good right arm, a strong back and a weak mind...