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...native Atlantan, I found your article extremely shortsighted and biased. Tokenism does not exist in Atlanta, but racial exhibitionism does, thanks to your ready cameras and dripping pens [Feb. 7]. Atlanta has gone much farther than was necessary in lowering all racial barriers. Atlantans have repressed their own feelings in a conscientious effort to give the Negro his equality, and now they face disgusting demonstrations in spite of this. The Negro deserved civil equality, and Atlanta gave it. The current demonstrations are unwarranted and indicative of the irresponsible, militant youths leading them. Their behavior is evidence of this. J. LARRY...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
...awards indicated the stylistic range of the show, which was held together by what one Atlantan called "an almost frightening racial strength and feeling." Brooklyn's Merton Simpson won the top landscape prize with a near-abstraction called Landscape Symphony. Top money-winner ($300) was String Dance, a relatively academic study by Walter A. Simon, teacher at Virginia State College...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
Last week, Johnny Suggs's daughter, now 24, fought through to the final round of the Women's National Amateur Golf Championship at the Franklin Hills Country Club (Detroit). Her opponent was Fellow Atlantan Dorothy Kirby, who is considered, by home-towners, a shade the better. Dorothy, whose playing form is good, is high-strung, and apt to show it under pressure. Louise is a trim 5 ft. 3 in., with a roundhouse swing that would look good on a ballplayer swinging for the fences...