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...Minnesota's fast-talking Hubert Humphrey, not yet a Senator, who insisted that a stout civil-rights plank-including an FEPC-be written into the Democratic Party's 1948 platform. The results were awesome: the Dixiecrats walked out of the convention, the party split, and that was as far as civil rights ever got. Southern Democrats in the Sist Congress threatened to filibuster civil rights to death, and had their way. The 82nd Congress is now six months old and the Administration has so far made no effort to revive the issue. Last week Senator Humphrey, seeing that...
Regulation. When questioned about this completely illegal setup, Galveston's public officials made it known that they were stout defenders of the freedom to drink and gamble. Said ex-Police Commissioner Walter L. Johnson: "Galveston was wide open before I was born. It was wide open when I came into office, and I left it wide open. The people of Galveston want an open town." Ambrose Lukovich, his successor, added: "As a reformer ... I don't think I would have been elected." When the committee asked Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright what it should recommend, he answered: "Regulated prostitution...
...week's end DiMaggio's predictions were beginning to look pretty good. Since the middle of the month, stout Yankee pitching by Ed Lopat (10-3), Vic Raschi (12-4) and Allie Reynolds (8-4) had whittled the White Sox lead from 4½ games to half a game; and a resurgence of the power-packed Red Sox (team batting average: .284), which won them ten of their last 16 games, rocketed Boston from a dismal seven games below first place to 3½ below. Heading for the midseason turning point this week, the Chicago pitching gave...
...Thanks, buddy," as someone handed him a lighted cigarette. A stout medic at the flaps suddenly shouted, "Litter case!" Two soldiers walked carefully into the tent, laid a stretcher on packing cases in the cone of light from a spotlight. The man on the stretcher moaned faintly. A field dressing lay across his eyes. His face was dirty, bearded, bloody. A doctor in an undershirt looked at the medical sergeant across the stretcher and shook his head in pity. Then he leaned over the wounded man and began gently to remove the field dressing...
...Stout-winded runners will race over a 26 mile 335 yard course from Hopkinton to Boston at the annual Patriot's Day Marathon tomorrow...