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...William Bailey, 73, Baptist-bred U.S. Senator from North Carolina (since 1931), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fervid champion of States' Rights and one of the most caustic of the anti-New Deal Southern Democrats, onetime editor of the Baptist Biblical Recorder; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Raleigh...
...Americans were John Raleigh Mott, 81, and Emily Greene Balch, 79; the German was Hermann Hesse, 69, who became a naturalized Swiss...
John White explored the Virginia coast in 1585, and two years later Sir Walter Raleigh sent him back to found and govern a colony. He sailed back to England with watercolors of American butterflies, turtles, and of an Indian tomb-temple on stilts, decorated with the skins and bones of ten mummified chiefs. When he returned to Virginia three years later, the colony had vanished...
...Raleigh Schorling earned $1.83 a day on his first teaching job 42 years ago. He is doing a little better now, as a professor of education at the University of Michigan, but he still thinks teachers are underpaid -and overworked. That, he says, is why 600,000 teachers have deserted the profession since 1939. Last week Professor Schorling was busy propagandizing teachers the nation over to endorse a twelve-point Bill of Rights. It was sure to please teachers, less likely to appeal to taxpayers. Items...
Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...