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...Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice, expressed concern about the company's labor policies. Old civil rights activists banded together as Southerners for Economic Justice joined the fray. Said Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., to Stevens Chairman James D. Finley: "I come before you as an American intolerant of injustice...
...Rozelle Hardcastle, Warren has forged a considerable Southern heroine-beautiful, cunning, passionate and full of what the author calls "the mystic promise," which must be enjoyed "purely as an art, as an illusion, as a complex poetry of the soul and the gonads." In her middle age, a rich widow and an expatriate, Rozelle marries a swami who had been the cultural darling of her Nashville set. His attraction is that he is no swami at all, but a brilliant fraud-a Mississippi-born Negro who taught himself to compose poetry in Hindi...
...sale at Christie's in London this week are five treasured paintings belonging to Lady Spencer-Churchill, 91. Although her personal assets are reckoned at over $170,000, Winston Churchill's widow Clementine, like most Britons, is a victim of inflation. When word got out that she was selling family heirlooms and that she was getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace...
...days, $208,333 was collected from those who remembered. Said a 31-year-old engineer: "It is our way of saying 'Thank you' for what you have done for us." Germany's most famous boxer, former Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, now 71, donated $400. A war widow of 75 added: "We Berliners haven't forgotten the help you Americans gave...
...hotels. Only fragments ever saw print, but their existence has lingered in the air as a gossipy tidbit. Now, a federal judge has ordered the tapes held under seal for 50 years, not to be disclosed unless under court order. Presumably this is meant to spare King's widow, Coretta, any further embarrassment. A Department of Justice investigation concluded that the tapes were "very probably" illegally obtained; they are thus as much a blot on Hoover's memory as on King's. Why aren't they simply destroyed? Attorney General Griffin Bell ought...