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...because they were more stupid than wicked. But though forgiveness came easy, David Low, who died last week at 72, could not bring himself to overlook either stupidity or wickedness. For 60 years he attacked them both with brilliant and unparalleled ferocity. His weapon was the cartoonist's brush...
Unable to get very far by attacking Coleman's solid record as Governor, Johnson and Sullivan chose to tar him with the Kennedy brush, a lethal weapon in Mississippi these days. Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957. Worse than that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood...
...rolls. He testified that jurors are selected from the list of owners of either real property or personalty, but that whites are listed in front of the tax book, and Negroes in the back on yellow pages. Then the clerk of the court, Leslie Bush, a thin man with brush hair cut, tried to sidestep the emerging evidence that an "N" was placed after Negroes on the jury lists. Except he called them "niggers" and Atty. Hollowell requested the court to reprimand the witness for using improper language. The court refused and Bush declared that he had been using...
...first wave of oil company diversification grew out of the companies' own products, as oilmen turned to producing petrochemicals from oil and gas. When that field became glutted, they began buying companies that made consumer products out of petrochemicals. Standard Oil of Ohio now owns the Prophylactic Brush Co. (toothbrushes), Phillips Petroleum makes plastic film for the packaging industry, and Continental Oil is preparing to market a detergent that does not clog sewers with foam...
...Hingorani, who lives in Nehru's home town of Allahabad, sifted through hundreds of pictures of his hero, finally drew his inspiration from Boris Chaliapin's TIME cover (Dec. 14, 1959). Having first sketched an outline, Hingorani pricked a finger of his left hand and dipped his brush. After drawing out 30 cc. of his own blood, he decided that this method was too slow, went to his local blood bank, which obligingly drew off another 20 cc. of his blood. It was enough to finish the job, though he decided not to sap his strength further...