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...theaters, and he got a few bits in television. All of a sudden he was in From Here to Eternity-playing Fatso, the sergeant who made chopped herring out of Frank Sinatra. The picture was a smash, and so was Ernie. He got other parts, but nothing really big till a couple of producers came along, name of Hecht and Lancaster, who wanted to do a picture about a fat Italian butcher boy -a real sweet kid, but lonesome. Ernie read for the part, and he was in. This guy Ernie did not just play Marty; he was Marty, sitting...
...foreign aid has come a long way from the postwar days when the simple criterion was to reward friends and to deny foes. The money doled from the U.S. till last week, to an odd set of customers, still had the same general purpose as the weapon once known to Europeans as "the cavalry of St. George."* But on both sides of the cold war, foreign aid was now devoted to far more complex purposes...
...trial opened, 500 spectators jammed the county courthouse, saw the lawyers and Till-Case Circuit Judge Curtis Swango select an all-white jury. Nearly everyone in Water Valley (1950 pop. 3,213) knew the dead prisoner, Woodrow Wilson Daniel, 37. Many remembered him as a grocery delivery boy and as a dependable bootlegger for both races. Everyone also knew that Sheriff "Buster" Treloar, 36, who campaigned on a prohibition platform, had kept an eye on Daniel since Daniel, three months earlier, was acquitted of a bootlegging charge. And nearly everyone in town knew that Sheriff Treloar had hauled in Daniel...
...spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi-trance...
Every Southerner, he feels, must share the guilt of collective injustice done the Negro from the days of slavery through the era of segregation. He admits that he himself bore this burden of guilt lightly till his wife's untimely death in 1933, an event that seemed so personally unfair that it shocked him into a generalized awareness of injustices. It did not make him a blind believer in reform. He quotes with tacit approval an uncle who said: "Ideals are a sin. We should love...