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...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...
...gentile at that. "Give him better a dollar he should go someplace else," she urges. But Frank stays and, miraculously, business improves. Frank Alpine is slowly revealed as a man whose aspirations are several light-years ahead of his performance. He works hard, but cannot resist stealing from the till. Then Morris discovers that Frank is one of the two robbers who held him up. Worst of all, his daughter Helen has fallen in love with the new clerk. Morris fires him, but Frank comes back, dogged, penitent. In the end, by way of ultimate expiation, Frank gradually changes...
...lady, her husband's nephew and a lady's maid, the husband himself, and a family friend with four innocent golden-haired daughters, are all cheek-by-jowl or better in a Paris fleabag. Upstairs and down they scamper, in and out of rooms they dash, till the gendarmes come rushing in at the second-act curtain...
...make him a perpetually driven and tormented man. "It just boils down to the fact that there is no rest, once the worm gets in and begins to feed upon the heart. Somewhere long ago...the worm got in and has been feeding ever since and will be feeding till I die. After this happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link in the chain that always holds; there are times when he almost forgets...but there is one tiny cell that still keeps working, working even when...
...Wait till you see Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle...