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...seized stealing a cheap penknife in a white-owned variety store. This was the height of the Depression, and for months Negroes had been mesmerized by the nationalistic "buy black" speeches of a Philadelphia Negro who called himself Sufi Abdul Hamid (real name: Eugene Brown). The rumor spread that the boy had been beaten to death, and though it was false, the mobs left four dead, 100 injured and $1,000,000 in property damage, largely to white stores...
...wife Virginia, and their three children, in Tuscaloosa to visit relatives, had a narrow escape from a mob when they went to a movie. Earlier in the day, Palance had signed autographs for both whites and blacks. When he and his family entered the newly desegregated Druid Theater, a rumor spread that a Negro woman had accompanied them. As it turned out, there were no Negroes in the theater at the time, but a crowd of nearly 1,000 whites gathered, pelted the cashier's cage and the marquee with rocks and bottles, shattered the windows and slashed...
Beneath his affability, Unger is a hard operator. When Premier Souvanna Phouma last week balked at allowing U.S. fighters to accompany reconnaissance flights, Unger called on his old bridge partner. Just what cards he used were not revealed, but one rumor had it that Unger warned Souvanna to either accept the armed escorts or get set for more drastic U.S. intervention. By week's end, Souvanna seemed once again to be seeing eye to eye with Unger...
Dean Ford sought to allay, however, the fear of at least one alumnus who called him last November to protest a rumor that Cliffies had taken over as Harvard cheerleaders. "The Radcliffe pom-pom girl is a long way off," he said Friday...
Stoppeurs were panicked recently by a rumor that France had outlawed le stop. It turned out that only persons under 18 were forbidden to hitchhike, and the situation soon returned to normal. Yet for single girls who do not happen to be judo champions, a women's magazine darkly warns that white slavers cruise the roads for recruits. Military uniforms and Boy Scout getups are a help for hitchhikers, and two Canadians in Nice recently made it in record time to southern Spain by dressing in cassocks...