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...days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets." With a rueful smile, one white girl summed up: "Some of us have grown up a lot in the last ten days-and so have some...
...from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life getting Aderhold "out of the university...
Amazing Statement. The mob, 1,000 strong, was ready to rush the dormitory when doughty Dean Tate sailed in, started swinging. He was shoved and punched, but he blunted the assault. Some 20 cops finally came to his aid, mainly because the mob called them yellowbellies...
...city agony columnists like Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren might turn up their powdered noses at such rural dilemmas. But Janice Tate, 37, the go-getting wife of a Corsicana, Texas insurance agent, is making a name for herself with her home-style answers to the problems that perplex the folks down on the farm. Though she had no journalistic experience, blue-eyed Jan Tate decided last summer that she could fill a Lone Star need by advising Texas small-towners on their big-sounding Texas problems. Packing her three "kiddos" and a picnic lunch...
Amazed at the response to her column and planning to sign up more papers, Jan Tate says of her work: "Actually, Texas problems aren't any bigger than anybody else's. Texans just think they...