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...White folks got all the money and Negroes got all the religion." This bitter Negro saying may once have had an uncomfortable amount of truth in it, but today, according to the Negro picture magazine Ebony, it ain't necessarily...
Negro airmen were fiercely proud of the success of the program; white boys reacted geographically. Grumbled a Florida boy: "It ain't working out at all, I'll clue you. You can't tell them to do anything but what they go running to the C.O. yelling, 'Those white boys are picking on me.' " An airman from Michigan dissented: "I think the thing is working out pretty good," he said. "After all, there are some lousy white guys...
...trial for the murder of an A.F.L. official named Morris Diamond. Ex-gangster Allie ("Tick Tick") Tannenbaum told the jury all about the crime. But another hood named Angelo Catalano-who had earlier admitted driving Parisi's getaway car-last week took the stand and said blandly, "That ain't the guy." A corroborating witness who had seen the murder just couldn't identify the killer either. Since a man may not be convicted of murder in New York solely on the testimony of accomplices, the judge helplessly dismissed the charge against Parisi and gave...
...York Yankee fans were coping this week with a brand-new vernacular. In a pre-game TV interview with Manager Casey Stengel, big, ham-handed Dizzy Dean boomed: "You ain't a-woofin' about that, brother!" The fans also noted, for future reference, that the Arkansas-born announcer conjugates the verb to swing as swing, swanged, swunged...
...loud taunt from the bleachers. He had what ballplayers call "rabbit ears," which pricked and blushed at every hostile sound. "Why do they cheer me for hitting a homer," he asked, "and then boo me for grounding out the next time up? I'm still the same guy, ain't I? ... They can all go to hell. I'll never tip my cap to them." Baseball Immortal Eddie Collins, now Red Sox vice president, says with resigned melancholy, "If he'd tip his cap just once he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes...