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GREAT FALLS, MONT, (goal: $100,000) mounted a big red plywood rooster on the marquee of a department store. Each $20,000 raised supplied the bird with one feather for its tail...
Before the cameras, Dewey held up a ballot of Senator John Sparkman's home state, Alabama; on it was the Democratic symbol, a rooster, with the legend: "White Supremacy-for the Right." Said Dewey: "White supremacy is the battle cry of the old Ku Klux Klan. It is the battle cry of the hatemongers and the fascists. It is the battle cry of those who would suppress the rights of all minorities . . . The Ku Klux Klan white-supremacy slogan was anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro . . . Governor Stevenson pretends to be a modern, liberal gentleman who reads well...
...Dewey, who rarely misses a point in this kind of argument, forgot one: in Sparkman's Alabama, the Democratic rooster at the top of the ballot bears the printed legend: White Supremacy...
...Louisiana, a hotbed of Dixiecrat rebellion four years ago, the Democratic State Central Committee last week voted 77-9 to put the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket on the ballot under the rooster symbol, traditional emblem of the Democratic Party. The surrender was not unconditional: the committee told Louisiana citizens that they could vote for Eisenhower in November and still remain Democrats in good standing. It also repudiated the national platform planks dealing with civil rights, FEPC and Senate cloture...
Ming ceramics, both plain white and bright-colored, were more distinctive products of the age. Of the two shown here, the underworld god at left has a clenched intensity seldom equaled in Western sculpture; the Oriental Apollo at right, riding a rooster into the dawn light, is no less intense in his calmness. Both ceramics share the one quality that Chinese artists have always considered of first importance: a linear fluency like that of clouds driven before a gale...