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Powell lost more than the tussle: his amendment was defeated in the committee, which went on to approve the school-construction bill. After the scrap, both men tut-tutted the whole affair. Said Powell: "Cleve Bailey and I smoke cigars together." Said Bailey: "The whole thing never happened." As Bailey made the denial, he showed reporters a half-inch cut on his right wrist, his only wound in the fight...
...Robert ("Tut") Patterson, secretary of Mississippi's pro-segregation Citizens Councils, suggested that all the councils do as the one in Sunflower County is doing: present high-school students with copies of Circuit Judge Tom Brady's Negro-baiting Black Monday, then offer a $50 prize to the pupil who makes the best attack on the U.S. Supreme Court's decision. The book should provide contestants with plenty of material. Its main theme: that from Egypt to Rome, from India to the Mayans, the Negro has been the cause of the decline and fall of practically everything...
...editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a nonpartisan man who is usually preoccupied with global concerns, sent a tut-tutting letter to the New York Times, taking the Republicans to task on a local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world-and I speak advisedly-where sucb a lamentable condition exists...
Adams. The only dissent would come from Illinois' Everett Dirksen, who would drop tut-tutting footnotes in defense of his friend McCarthy...
According to Biographer Hinks, Caravaggio was a violent genius who cast a mighty long shadow. Born in 1573 in the north Italian town of Caravaggio, he went to Rome at 18 and almost immediately captured the capital by his talent for naturalistic painting, although contemporary academicians tut-tutted his ignorance of Raphaelesque composition and decorum. He worked directly from nature, without preliminary sketches, and painted sacred history as if it had all happened just around the corner...