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...bender with his wife, ended the evening charged with homicide (TIME, Feb. 22). At a restaurant, Zantzinger whacked two employees with a cane. Later that evening, at a white-tie dance in a Baltimore hotel, he used the cane again on a Negro bellhop and a Negro waitress. Then he scolded a Negro barmaid, Mrs. Hattie Carroll, 51. "What's the matter with you, you black son of a bitch," he snarled, "serving my drinks so slow?" With that, he beat the woman with his cane. She collapsed and was taken off in an ambulance. Eight hours later...
...allowed him free time to build fast cars and race them. His first wife divorced him. In 1959 he set to work on Spirit in earnest. Before he was through, he quit his job, exhausted his unemployment compensation, was scrimping by on the earnings of his second wife, a waitress in a drive-in (and a car buff like himself). "Four years," he said last week. "Four years of seven days a week, 18 hours a day-no movies, no going out to dinner, no TV, nothing but work...
...work and short of cash, Christine became the mistress of a rich RollsRoyce-driving real estate man, who set her up in a luxurious flat off Baker Street. But the affair proved unsatisfactory, and she went to work as a waitress, then as a showgirl in Murray's Cabaret Club. "And then," Christine said, "I began meeting my first interesting male companions...
Marvellous Place. Christine also cavorted with members of London's vast West Indian contingent, had affairs with Jamaican Johnnie Edgecombe and Singer Lucky Gordon. "When I first met her," said Gordon, "she was asking the waitress in a cafe where she could get some Indian hemp [marijuana]. Knowing this, I wanted to know her." There were a number of others. Scotland Yard is said to have Christine's notebook, and the notebook is said to be full of names...
...nonviolence. Said he: "The lesson of Birmingham is that the Negroes have lost their fear of the white man's reprisals and will react with violence, if provoked. This could happen anywhere in the country today." Last week, at the crest of the crisis, a white Birmingham waitress said to a customer from the North: "Honey, I sure hope the colored don't win. They've winned so much around the South. Why, you go down and get on a bus, and a nigger's just liable to sit right down beside you. Oh, that...