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...Sumner, Miss, belongs to the Deeper South-the one without its own memories of ante-bellum order or graciousness...
...Sumner was snake-infested swamp until it was cleared for cotton in 1873. Like many another U.S. town, it was built around a courthouse, and its pioneers brought into the wilderness a respect for Anglo-American law. But they also brought the hatreds and half-digested lessons of Reconstruction years and a socio-economic system that would constantly conflict with the tradition of Anglo-American justice as those traditions lived and evolved among the vast majority of their countrymen...
Last week, in Sumner's hot and hideous courthouse, the white community of Tallahatchie County came into conflict with the tradition of the law in the person of Circuit Judge Curtis M. Swango. In a way, both won. The immediate and overt victory went to the community. The law's victory was that so much of it survived in the face of blind hatred...
...Public policy both on mergers and bigness should be one of keeping hands off." Thus, before Stanford University's 14th Business Conference in Stanford, Calif, last week, Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter took up the question of increasing bigness in U.S. business and explored it both from an economic and a political standpoint. Said Slichter: "The health of any organization, whether a business concern, a university, or a Government agency, is promoted by growth...
...income from the Sumner Fund has been awarded to Jiri Liska 4G for his thesis entitled "The Multiple Equilibrium: A Theory of International Organization of Collective Security," while Dennis E. Brown '55 has won the income from the Maurice Donner Sherman Fund. Edward K. Dunham III '55 has won the income from the Wister Fund as the senior concentrating in Music who has the highest record in his field...