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Julia "will do anything-fight a man, curse a teacher, or kiss a boy in the schoolyard." But she is sexually scared and she quit her husband as soon as she learned that her supposed pregnancy was only a stomachache. A golddigger, she says: "When you get a sucker, bump his head.'' Of white folks: "I hate white people. I just like to beat on white people...
...last week 125 pupils gathered dutifully in their schoolyard to watch Fat Stuff's last lesson. First a health inspector examined Fat Stuff. Then he gave the silent children a lecture on hog inspection. Then he slit Fat Stuff's throat...
...watching over his mother's class of 25 youngsters. He heard a loud noise. Plaster started falling. He thought for a split second of the window. Then two or three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase had formed a cave from under which ten pale children scampered. "There was so much confusion," said Don Nelson, "I can't remember much...
...evening last fortnight, after a day in Louisville together, Mrs. Taylor complained of a headache and General Denhardt took her out for some country air. Turning in a schoolyard five miles outside La Grange, his automobile battery went dead. Mrs. Taylor went to a nearby filling station for help. She looked, to a farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down...
...members of the Interstate Commerce Commission acted last week like ten schoolboys appointed to settled a schoolyard dispute. They made their decision, but like schoolboys, they knew that their teachers (in this instance the nine justices of the U. S. Supreme Court) would be the final arbiters. The dispute was over the valuation of U. S. railroads. It had been stewing a long time-since 1914 when the Esch-Cummins Act went into effect. By this Act Congress ordered the I. C. C. to reckon up the values of each of the U. S. railroads according to some fair formula...