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...went to work, tirelessly washing and ironing the laundry that her two boys hauled home in a wagon. When Jimmy was about ten, the family moved 20 miles northwest to Clinton, on the Wabash River. The boys chopped and sold wood, set out trotlines in the river, caught catfish, bass, suckers; some were sold, the rest were eaten at home. They scraped the bottom of the Wabash for mussels, boiled them in big oil drums, sold the shells to button makers at the rate of $6 a ton. They learned how to take care of themselves and to get what...
...quell any trouble that might break out. At some schools, it seemed at times as if the cops might be needed. Groups of white adults and teenagers wearing "Keep Our White Schools White" buttons passed out racist handbills, and a few people noisily heckled grey-haired School Superintendent William Bass as he toured possible trouble spots ("Why do you let niggers come to our white schools?") But beyond that, 13 little Negroes were allowed, more or less in peace, to register in five of 15 newly desegregated elementary schools. Thus, last week, Nashville became the largest city this year...
...tries to present "musical experiences that are not included in wintertime concerts anywhere in the world." Audiences heard the 42-man orchestra wheel through freshly performed American music, including the wisecracking, four-movement Divertimento Burlesca by Los Angeles' Benjamin Lees, 32, and the sprightly Three Songs for Bass and Orchestra by Chicago's late Edward Collins. As a counterpoint to such commissioned modern works, Conductor Johnson offered some elegant, rarely performed echoes of the 18th century; the Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, by Johann Christian Bach (youngest son of J.S.B.), the Partita in A Major for Viola...
...with his parents and six-year-old sister Wendy for a week's fishing. His hosts: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman and nine-year-old son Mike, who angled unsuccessfully with Benny in Gull Lake (later, fishing with his father, Benny reeled in a creditable string of bass). Behaving as if he were running for governor himself, Benny paraded with a dairy princess, mugged happily at a press conference, offered the fruit of his experience to Young America: "Stay away from holes in the ground...
...Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will be waiting...