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THREE ON A TOOTHBRUSH by Jack Paar. 276 pages. Doubleday...
...more than 400 white churchmen sped to Selma. Many turned up without so much as a toothbrush or a change of socks, and few had any idea of where they would stay. Some seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
Among boating buffs, unlike the mink-toothbrush set, there is no such creature as the man who has every thing. He may think he has - between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious...
...King may not as of yet succumbed to Southern brutality and a toothbrush may accompany him to his cell, but your implication that he either lacks courage or the willingness to dirty his hands is in poor taste. Dr. King may get a police escort when he speaks in Boston, but whenever he travels through the Deep South (and he does so frequently), and whenever he defies its leaders and flaunts its laws, he exhibits courage of the highest sort...
...King has never been beaten, if he went to jail in St. Augustine with silk pajamas and a toothbrush--and departed abruptly to take and honorary degree at Yale--he exerts, nonetheless, unparallelled charisma in the black ghettos of the South, where his personal style is a measure of what a Negro may become...