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...Sturgis crowd was on hand again for last week's school opening-and so were eight state troopers, thoughtfully dispatched to the scene by the Chandler administration. Seventeen Negro students arriving at the high school were jeered. A few handfuls of gravel and four or five empty soda-pop cans were tossed, but the presence of the cops held off real trouble. Next morning the crowd was down from about 300 to about 100-and the trooper force boomed to 30. The cops were not trying to make trouble ("If these people will only meet us halfway," implored...
...best that can be said for him is that he admirably expressed his era. A discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar...
...Spree Waters. In Farmington, N.Mex., Paul Schoolboy Nez, a 65-year-old Navajo, was fined $20 after a state trooper testified that Nez was "drunk on horseback after dark, no lamps displayed; was thrown from horse to center of traffic lane where he went to sleep...
...moment for Stevenson's arrival grew nearer, the crowd grew larger and more disorganized. While the state troopers struggled bravely to keep the thousands away from the air strip, party workers urged them on. The police held their own for a moment, arm to arm. Then the trooper who was holding closed the main gate let out a groan and the Democratic tide poured through, while a party worker shrieked "Keep back...
...house with a shoe, chased her into a neighbor's yard where she crawled under a car, drummed on the auto's fender with the shoe to Hush her out, recalled too late that the neighbor, who collared him for local police, was a state trooper...