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...sequence in the picture. On fire after a nine-day siege by Indians and renegade whites, Boone's stockade is saved by a heavy rain-a deed of Providence so terrifying to the superstitious braves that they quit fighting. When the Virginia knaves have stolen with a legal writ the acres that defied the tomahawk, Boone and his men, Kentuckians now, turn to the trail again, westward into a waiting continent...
...choir-leaders, Mrs. Adams does not drive herself. Tall, bespectacled and dignified, she seats herself at her grand piano from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. every day, says: "I just write what I know I can write." Words come to her from her unerring memory of Holy Writ. The anthems appear finally in a neat, vertical hand, a delight to music engravers. Her work done, Carrie Belle Adams devotes herself to her large collections of cream pitchers and quilts...
...from the State's Lincoln University (for Negroes). When he applied for entrance to Missouri's law school, the University Registrar tactfully suggested that Lincoln could give him a "scholarship" to study law elsewhere. Negro Gaines declined to be sidetracked, got NAACP to bring suit for a writ of mandamus compelling Missouri to admit him. Thereupon the University threw out his application, ruled that, although Lincoln was a State college, its academic credits were not acceptable at the State University...
...speeding charge, Judge Walter J. Casey promptly issued an order for his arrest. In the House Office Building the Washington Representative gabbled to reporters about Congressional immunity, snorted that Judge Casey could "go to hell." When a police sergeant appeared to arrest him, he told the officer that his writ could not be served on Federal property. Then Zioncheck abruptly changed his mind, got in his roadster with the sergeant, whizzed away toward court. After a few blocks Representative Zioncheck swung his car around without warning, roared back to the House Office Building, leaped out, ran up the steps...
...right there," interposed Justice Wheat, "wouldn't the court have the right to issue a writ of habeas corpus...