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Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...
...Royal Roost. He learned a few songs-Star Dust, Blue Moon, Pennies from Heaven-and landed a job. He made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come le-ean on me"). One night, when he was playing the Five O'Clock Club in Miami at $300 a week, he chucked pop singing "like a thief in the night.'' Says he: "What I was singing was junk...
...Sudan, on the upper reaches of the Niger, to just short of West Africa's Atlantic Coast. When its 14th century ruler, the Mansa (Sultan) Musa, made his pilgrimage to Mecca, he traveled with a caravan of 60,000 men, and among his camels were 80 that each bore 300 Ibs. of gold. He built his wife a swimming pool in the desert, and filled it with water borne in skins by his slaves; he turned the fabled city of Timbuktu into a trading center and a refuge for scholars. But such medieval empires one by one faded away...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea that a good many apparently tame Englishmen secretly like to fancy themselves racketing around the Wild West like pure cussedness in cowpants, blasting the bepluribus out of silver dollars at 30 paces and generally keeping the beastly natives in their place...
...fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually made by Lieut. M.E. Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps, a small-time character actor who bore such a staggering resemblance to Monty and mimicked him so well that not a man in North Africa twigged the substitution-not even Monty's onetime batman...