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DURING the darkest moments of mob rule at Little Rock, the Right Rev. Robert Raymond Brown, Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, picked up his phone and put in a long-distance call to Washington. Bishop Brown was calling Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson, once a member of his parish in Richmond, to offer his good offices in any sort of effort to be helpful in what he called "the school situation." Assistant Secretary Robertson called Attorney General Herbert Brownell, who called the President, who sat down almost immediately and wrote the Bishop a letter. "I deeply believe," said the President...
...This is the darkest day in Southern history since Reconstruction," vowed a speaker at a Kiwanis meeting in Marshall, Texas, whereupon the Kiwanians refused to give their customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus...
...Darkest Hour." Father Halton first ruffled the campus of Presbyterian-founded Princeton (motto: "Under God she flourishes") in 1954, with a sharp-tongued attack on the fitness of famed Philosopher Dr. Walter T. Stace to teach a freshman class in his subject, since he once admitted: "I believe in no religion at all." Father Halton then charged that Princeton's department of religion was incompetent to instruct students in Roman Catholicism because not one member was as well trained in the subject as "an eighth-grader in St. Paul's" (a local Catholic school...
...time went on, Halton found error all about him. In 1956, when a group of students asked Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss to make a speech, Halton huffed that this was "Princeton's darkest hour," brought in a reporter from the Chicago Tribune to tell the students about Hiss and his Communist connections. The American Association of University Professors, charged Halton, "has abuses more serious than have been found in the inquiries of the Teamsters Union." He blasted a book called Morals and Medicine used as a text in some religion courses, saying that it misrepresented Roman Catholic teaching. Later...
...filled with works of religious feeling, works interspersed with somber pictures of Chatham, its seafaring people and their tribulations. Straight-forward and often powerful, her art conveys almost as much bitterness and darkness as it does sweetness and light, with a Christian theme to give some light to its darkest corners...