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...approving attitude in the lynching story on p. 13, Dec. 5 issue of TIME, as manifested in the following quotations: "The folks of Wiggins, Miss., a quiet sawmill town, have no unusual thirst for Negro blood. They simply know what must be done when a Negro rapes." ". . . They just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body." Do "they" merit medals in addition to your implied commendation for their failure to shoot or burn the body of their victim after murdering him ? TIME never lets the opinions of its presumably opinionless editors creep...
...close the account of the lynching with these words: "- they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn the body." Is this irony-or an accolade...
...folks of Wiggins, Miss., a quiet sawmill town, have no unusual thirst for Negro blood. They simply know what must be done when a Negro rapes. They knew four years ago when R. D. McGehee raped 13-year-old Catherine Ramsey: they strung him up by the neck, shot his body full of holes. They knew last week when old (74) Mrs. N--,* mother of a doctor, declared that a young Negro had come at night to her house, robbed her kitchen, then taken her out to the roadside and raped...
...were looking for McGowan at the Ten-Mile sawmill where he used to work, the Wiggins town siren sounded. Sheriff Hinton knew what that meant. The mob had found McGowan sleeping under a truck at his grandmother's house. Afterold Mrs. N identified him, they just strung him up in the woods. They didn't shoot or burn his body...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will participate this afternoon and tomorrow night with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis." These performances figure not only in Mr. Kousscvitsky's plan to celebrate his fifteenth anniversary here with a sort of strung out Beethoven festival, but also in his desire to secure a good recording of the work after last year's failure...