Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unpainted, poster-plastered little hut of a cafe outside the Gregg County seat of Longview in East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...
Last week Triggerman Ross, 22, was finally brought to trial in Longview (pop. 38,900) for the "murder with malice" of the young Negro. Before a jury of twelve East Texans, all whites, his lawyers argued that Ross, who had had several beers, had not been bent on murder. Said one of them: "This boy wanted to scare somebody and keep the niggers and the whites from going to school together-now that's the truth about it." He appealed to the jury to "call it a bad day and let the boy go on in life." District Attorney...
...Birmingham, Ala. (pop. 365,000), quite a different kind of trial took place. Accused of burglary "with intent to ravish'' Mrs. Mary Giangrosso, an elderly white woman, was Charles Clarence Hamilton, 26, Negro. Rejecting the court-appointed lawyer, Hamilton attempted to conduct his own defense, denied the state's charge that he entered Mrs. Giangrosso's home in October and that he was caught while removing his clothing. After slightly more than an hour's deliberation the all-White jury returned its verdict: guilty as charged. The sentence: death in the electric chair...
Herb Scheiner came in at this point and allowed two runs on a hit and a sacrifice fly. With one out, third baseman Jim Shue made a fine catch on a pop-fly and tossed the ball to second to complete a double play and get Scheiner...
Voice of Experience. In Worksop, England, George Haslam, 67, announcing his engagement to Florence Beety, 23, conceded that gossips had worried him by what they might say, but that his father, 90, "could see I was in love, and told me to pop the question...