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FORD: THE TIMES, THE MAN, THE COMPANY, by Allan Nevins, was a long, steady look at the stubborn, imaginative mechanic who stands as a symbol of U.S. industrial daring. Even more, the book was the definitive history of a mighty business in which Ford was not the real businessman...
When five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt first appeared at the white public school in Mount Dora, Fla., Principal D. D. Roseborough suspected that there might be trouble. Skins of some of the children were so brown that pupils and their parents wondered whether the children might be Negroes. Principal Roseborough quickly reassured them: he had checked in Holly Hill, S.C., where the Platts lived last year, found that though they had Indian blood, they were officially listed as white. That seemed to satisfy most everyone-except Mount Dora's beefy, dictatorial Sheriff Willis McCall...
Shape of a Nose. He called on the Platts one night and charged that they were Negroes. Allan Platt had his marriage license and the children's birth certificates to prove the family white. Instead of listening, the sheriff ordered the children to line up for a photograph...
Louise Scobie (Elizabeth Allan), the wife, is a species of clinging vine; her husband has not cut her loose because he pities her, and feels "a sense of responsibility for what she has become." Pity and the sense of responsibility have become the quiet passions of Scobie's quiet life...
...ALLAN DALZIEL...