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From the steps of the state capitol Frederick John Kasper, 27, the tall, hawk-faced agitator from Camden, N.J., began to whip up the crowd. "The Constitution of the U.S. gives you the right to carry arms," he said. "If one of these niggers pulls a razor or a gun on us, we'll give it to 'em . . . When they fool with the white race they're fooling with the strongest race in the world, the most bloodthirsty race in the world." Hot-eyed Rabble-rouser John Kasper mentioned the name of one of Nashville...
From Crooner Cole came praise for NBC for "supporting the show [at a cost of $20,000 a week] and picking out good sponsors-like Rheingold Beer." As other sponsors queued up, Cole curled his prune-whip voice around a hot salvo for Madison Avenue: "That street still runs TV, and there is reluctance on its part to sell my show. Madison Avenue is in the North, and that's where the resistance is. Sometimes the South is used as a football to take some of the stain off us in the North. I have been well received...
...Concerning your Aug. 5 story on Airman Donald Wheeler: The armed forces are chicken; they daren't enforce orders. But should they try, get a pressagent to whip up a frenzied campaign to save you from discipline. Carry your case to the public through press, radio, and courier where necessary. You'll win if you whine and weep. My nomination for our next "National Hero": Airman Donald Wheeler...
...barrister and sometime (1922-24) Liberal Member of Parliament, Jowitt was Attorney General in the second Labor government (1929-31) of Ramsay MacDonald, Solicitor General (1940-42) in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, Lord Chancellor (1945-51) in the Cabinet of Labor's Clement Attlee, writer of whip-witted prose on legal subjects. Most notable of his works: The Strange Case of Alger Hiss, in which he concluded that Defendant Hiss (see PEOPLE) was unjustly convicted of perjury, the case a monument to feckless U.S. justice and the jury system...
...Herr Generaldirektor), earned the nickname "the American" for his breezy ways and love of jazz. But he fired up the conservative management, tightened up the firm's operations, soon had Krupp humming with new energy. "I am a circus manager," says Beitz, "and I must crack the whip. Action-action right now-is what we must have...