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Nice Try. In Kansas City, Mo., R. D. Coleman, arrested for popping away at the sky with his BB gun, failed to persuade the judge that he was just trying to stir up a storm...
...Uneasy Stirrings. Now that the FBI was officially under way on the all-out loyalty check, a certain uneasiness began to stir in Government offices and at least part of the nation's press. The case of the State Department employees seemed to reverse the process of Anglo-Saxon law-which assumes that the accused is innocent until proved guilty. It seemed to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of their constitutional rights. Also, the ten had apparently been convicted of disloyalty on mere "derogatory information," which was the tool of a police state and not a democracy...
Other headlines caused only a stir. California had its eighth sex murder since the unsolved Black Dahlia killing. Manhattan's East Side had three Prohibition-style street-shootings in two days, and one victim spoke in a manner worthy of radio's "Gangbusters" before cashing in his chips. When the hated cops asked him his name, he said: "Joe Bananas, the second." When they asked who had done the foul deed, he responded: "Me mother...
...next immediate step was up to Britain and France and the nations of Western Europe. But the final step was up to the U.S. people, who would be called upon to underwrite the Marshall Plan. In the course of human events, it had once again become necessary to stir the political consciousness of mankind...
...noticed that Jimmy did not go dancing as he once did, and no longer bounced around the house sparring and roughhousing. Instead he sat for hours reading books, and talked as though he would never again enter a ring. But after nearly nine months of retirement, he began to stir again. He told a friend: "I have to prove I wasn't hurt . . . that I'm a man." Manager Paul Doyle lined up a few bouts, and Jimmy breezed through the first five, against second-raters...