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...book-loving Baptist preacher, Johnson had been a brilliant sociology student at Virginia Union University and the University of Chicago, sweated his way through as stevedore, ditchdigger, mess boy, night watchman and waiter. In 1923 he founded Opportunity, a Negro journal which published the work of men like Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson, gave a lift to musicians like W. C. Handy and William Grant Still...
Haganah, which means "defense," is the peoples' army of Palestinian Jewry. Its history goes back to Czarist Russia, where small groups organized to protect themselves against pogroms. The idea was brought to Palestine before World War I, and an organization called Hashomer, "The Watchman," was formed. At first they were merely armed guards for the new agricultural settlements, but with the end of the war, the idea of an all-inclusive defense organization took root. With returned veterans of the Jewish Legion of Allenby's Middle Eastern British Army, a nucleus of Haganah was formed...
...afternoon 50-year-old Alfred Brissenden, a night watchman, was taking a dish of tea with his wife in their cottage on Green Street, Royston, Hertfordshire. Beside them sat Ben, 6, their black-&-white, smooth-haired fox terrier. Just as Mrs. Brissenden passed Mr. Brissenden the biscuits, a voice said: "I want...
Ellen was only 16, and Watts 47, when they were married. He admired her youth and spirit, dressed her in armor to pose for The Watchman. The armor was heavy, and as he was putting the finishing touches on the picture, she crashed to the floor in a faint. Watts' middle-aged lady friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came...
...abandoned it last spring, leaving behind millions of dollars' worth of equipment (trucks, tractors, jeeps, etc.). Camp Canol, at its peak a roaring movie set of a place populated with black-bearded men and an occasional ginghamed girl, is today a ghost town where a lonely watchman lives and only a single curl of smoke reaches skyward in the early twilight...