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...apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment), they were able to seize the records of some 50 opposition organizations and groups, some of which are proCommunist. For all the police fanfare, no big Communist plot to overthrow the government was revealed. Some of the evidence did show, however, that many nonwhites, deprived...
...Preach all the four winds . . . Preach the North Wind of God's righteous judgments-that the way of the transgressor is hard, and the wages of sin is death. Preach the East Wind of God's affliction, that whom He loveth He chasteneth and scourgeth . . . Preach the South Wind of temptation and danger . . . But most of all, preach the West Wind . . . You're never really preaching until you're preaching the West Wind of God's mercy and pity and forgiveness...
Negley Parson, onetime foreign correspondent, exhibitionist autobiographer (The Way of a Transgressor), took time out from novel writing for a small transgression in North Devon, England. A constable caught him driving drunkenly through Wollacombe, hauled him into court. Cost: ?25, license suspended for a year. But Author Farson found it all rather pleasant. "They were awfully nice to me," said he. "The constable took me to the police station and he, the police inspector, their two wives and I all had tea together...
Whether or not the Athletic Committee is willing to admit it, the University has already received a bad name form the incident of the lacrosse team at the Naval Academy. The new "Jim Crow" reputation is doubly unfortunate in that the Navy was the ultimate transgressor and that Harvard has for years maintained an honest and liberal policy, toward the negro in athletics...
Author Negley Farson (The Way of a Transgressor) has broken into the movies at 50 with Blitz Hotel. Director Maurice Elvey got the idea while staying at the Savoy, in 20 minutes talked Farson into writing the scenario. The scene will be the inside of a big London hotel between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.; personal appearances by such familiar Londoners as Lord Castlerosse, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Carroll Gibbons and Manning Sherwin will add a touch of realism. Says Farson: "The story is fiction, but the bombardment outside is undeniable fact...