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Like fine connoisseurs, the Cheese Tasters have paid close attention to the wine they choose. After six meetings, the group definitely prefers an unsweet red wine and chooses Burgundy over Chianti...

Author: By Bruce B. Paul, | Title: Adams House Goes From Wine to Cheese In Effort to Uphold Gourmet Reputation | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

...speak of "segregation's old unsweet song." Can't you see that segregation of races is an integral part of our way of life here, and that it is impossible to legislate a social change. The Negroes here aren't unhappy. They're not oppressed. They are making great progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...friend, South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes, asked him to, partly as a matter of constitutional (states' rights) and social conviction ("Race is a fact, like sex"). Some of his other friends were sorry to hear him, at twilight, singing segregation's old unsweet song. But the popularity of a cause rarely cuts any ice with John W. Davis. One of his permanent heroes is Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who (at 71) defied popular opinion by defending Louis XVI before a French revolutionary tribunal. Advocate Malesherbes lost his case, his royal client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MAY IT PLEASE THE COURT. . . | 12/21/1953 | See Source »

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