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...Negroes were killed after race rioting in Columbia's Mink Slide district (TIME, March 11, 1946). Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill was shot to death by Georgia lynchers (TIME, June...
Bare bulbs glared through the smoky, crowded room. Caleb ("Picky Pie") Hill, a husky, 28-year-old Negro, was drunk, but the sheriff got handcuffs on him, and began to question witnesses. Suddenly, the sheriff felt his pistol pulled from the holster, turned to find Picky Pie aiming at his head. Hatcher ducked and the bullet went into the ceiling. In the scuffle, the sheriff's pistol got lost. The sheriff took his prisoner back to town and put him in a cell with another Negro in the jail on the second floor of the sheriff's house...
...belongs with George Caleb Bingham's painting, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, as a work of art worthy of the artless wanderers who gave an American ring to the word freedom...
...soldier's mother was to blame," remarked Billy. "She didn't allow him to be independent." A boy named Caleb thought the G.I. had deserted too soon: "If it had come to a showdown, the soldier might have shown more courage than he thought he had." John guessed: "Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's good. It makes you more alert...
...Caleb A. Smith, instructor of Economics, contradicted foes of price control who assert that increased production will hold the price line, by pointing out that manufacturers will more likely hold back on their goods, waiting for higher prices, as they...