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...Life. In Honolulu, Teisu Miyashiro, a laborer, barked at pedestrians, at the policeman who arrested him, at the prosecuting attorney in court. Barked the judge: "Take him away and put him in the pound...
...forest, a vast area had been cleared away. Much of Tom Dewey's strength had come from Old Guard Republican leaders determined to beat Willkie at any cost. They had used Tom Dewey as a parking place while they beat Willkie. But if they parked too long, Policeman Dewey would tag them. The politicos pondered; and the path for a dark horse was by no means closed...
Says a Cambridge adage: "Banned in Boston is the trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said...
...face, and a piercing eye." He was clad in a blue canvas garment and carried a pilgrim's staff. He was young Antonio Conselheiro. For ten years he had been wandering in the backlands of Brazil (hiding there in shame after his wife had run off with a policeman), eating little or nothing, indifferent to danger, speaking in cryptic, prophetic monosyllables, sleeping in the open, and becoming a terrifying, unforgettable legend. He was crazy...
Bill Smith's father, a Honolulu policeman, is Irish-Hawaiian; his mother is English-Hawaiian. Bill did not start swimming in earnest until he was ten, when typhoid fever left him unable to walk. A coming Hawaiian swimming star, he saw the bombing of Pearl Harbor from his home porch, seven miles from the base...