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...Manager Earl Johnson told his men to retaliate by signing all their hotel meal checks with Mickel's name; Mickel was barely able to leave town. A sardonic example of U.P. tightfistedness was an exchange one day between Atlanta, the U.P.'s southern division relay point, and Raleigh, N.C., where a staffer was simultaneously punching copy on two teleprinters. When Atlanta complained that the copy was moving too slowly, Raleigh replied: HE ONLY HAS TWO HANDS. Came Atlanta's message: FIRE THE CRIPPLED BASTARD. (The U.P. has also a generous side to staffers, but compassion-as most...
...hindsights on Gettys burg only reflect a verdict long accepted by the U.S. Army and most historians: it was Lee's worst-fought battle. Columnist Pie Dufour observed in the New Orleans States: "These armchair generals are on solid ground, believe it or not." And the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer argued that Lee's own view of his performance at Gettysburg was at variance with the "Southern Oratory" used to defend it. This was reasonable, for Lee himself conceded afterwards: "It is I who have lost this fight." That, of course, opened up the question...
Onetime White House Aide (1943-45) Jonathan Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer, disclosed, on the twelfth anniversary of the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, that he had withheld from newsmen certain photographs made of F.D.R. at Yalta: "It was my job to screen those pictures and to release to the press only those least marked by the deadly, haggard weariness of the commander whose face . . . had so long been a symbol of confidence." In Los Angeles, recalling that she had seen some of the censored pictures, Eleanor Roosevelt did not concur: "I do not believe that [F.D.R...
Donegan's coals-to-Newcastle versions of U.S. folk songs skiffled squeals out of the teenagers, but, according to a Raleigh, N.C. diagnostician, their yelping "has a spasmodic quality compared to the sustained ecstasy Elvis seems to inspire...
...chaplain at the University of Mississippi, now a Southern official of the National Council of Churches: "I know of very few white Southern ministers who aren't troubled and don't have admiration for King. They've become tortured souls." Says Baptist Minister William Finlator of Raleigh, N.C.: "King has been working on the guilt conscience of the South. If he can bring us to contrition, that is our hope...