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...rest facing runoffs), and thus indicated that he can hold his own in the Deep South. In the Florida panhandle, Campaigner Kefauver, acting as though his shoes were really pinching as the critical May 29 primary drew closer, complained that he had been smeared by a spreading rumor that he favored calling out federal troops to enforce desegregation...
That record is the basis in fact for the vicious rumor campaign against Zeidler. Among the false charges...
...Zeidler's opponent in the mayoralty election next week. But McGuire aides have sneered at Zeidler workers for asso ciating with a "nigger lover," and McGuire undoubtedly stands to benefit from the whispering campaign against Zeidler. With some bitterness the mayor links his opponent to the rumors. Says Zeidler: "The rumor is what made possible any candidacy against me. It is one of those things that is very hard to combat. If my opponent leaves any heritage to Milwaukee, whether he wins or loses, it will be racial tension where none existed before...
...N.A.A.C.P." After that, officials of the Jackson Citizens' Council declared the company innocent of the charges against it. Now Falstaff sales are back up-except that some Memphis Negroes, angered by its explanation, have switched to other brands. Philip Morris has had trouble partly because of a false rumor that it contributed to the N.A.A.C.P., partly because, like a great many other companies, it employs Negro salesmen. Snarled the White Sentinel: "The owners of Philip Morris may discover that their cigarettes are just for Negro consumption." A Philip Morris executive traveled to Montgomery and said: "Neither Philip Morris...
...warning to the overeager, Classicist Jotham Johnson of New York University posted a special memo in the classics department last week. "The sordid rumor has been promulgated," he wrote, "that March 15, 1956 is the 2,000th anniversary of those Ides of March on which CJ. Caesar was assassinated. This results from an inaccurate or hasty computation, for March 15, 44 B.C. to March 15, 1 B.C. equals only 43 years; March 15, 1 B.C. to March 15, 1 A.D. equals one year. (There was no zero year.) March 15, 1 A.D. to March 15, 1956 makes a total, then...