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Armed Force. In Savannah, Mrs. Violet Mackey, animal-farm owner, tangled with a four-foot alligator that clamped onto her arm, vainly struggled to get free, finally dragged the reptile into the house, got a pistol, shot...
Meeting in Savannah, Georgia's Baptist Convention got ready to vote on the report of its Social Service Committee: ". . . That the Christian people of Georgia be urged to apply the principles of Jesus in a serious effort to allay the growing race tensions so spotlighted by the lynchings in Georgia and the recent Columbians Inc. disturbances in Atlanta." Up jumped ex-Navy Chaplain Joseph A. Rabun, 39, new pastor of the McRae Baptist Church, where rabble-rousing, Governor-elect Gene Talmadge is the leading lay member. Shouted Pastor Rabun: "That is not strong enough! We need to condemn with...
...their boredom was a good sign. It meant that nobody was mad at anybody else-something rare in international finance. The British, who were shoved around by the U.S. at the Savannah conference (TIME, April 1) until they could barely see straight, actually went home happy...
...rash of cheery press releases and bad feeling, the operating mechanism for the World Bank & Fund was set up last week at Savannah. Basic causes of the trouble were the old differences between Britain and the U.S. on how Bretton Woods should be implemented. But there was a new irritant. U.S. Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson looked like a weary ewe, but ran the nine-day conference with ram-like authority. He got exactly what he wanted-and the British be damned...
...Manchester Guardian: "The meeting was intensely discouraging. . . . Every proposal put forward by the American delegation was pressed through with steamroller tactics. . . . In fact, the worst fears of those who have always warned us that this is what the U.S. meant by international economic cooperation were borne out at Savannah...