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...South, Griffin encountered what he calls "the hate stare." Offering his seat to a white woman in a New Orleans streetcar, he watched her face stiffen into hostility. "What are you looking at me like that for?" she asked sharply, and turned away muttering, "They're getting sassier every day." Hitchhiking through Alabama, he was picked up by a white truck driver who inquired, with a leer, whether Griffin's wife had ever slept with a white man, informed him that "we're doing your race a favor to get some white blood into your kids...
Yale has an exceptionally good tug-of-war team this year and will make a fine showing in the Mott Haven contest. Le Sassier, '88 S., who will undoubtedly pull number one on the team, broke the record for an individual pull last Thursday by working the spring up to 780 pounds and holding it at 700 for the time limit...