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...these things-and many more like them. He ordered city employees to use "Dear Mr. Jones" instead of "Dear Jim" in answering letters from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished a police honor escort from and to the airport for a visiting Negro dignitary, Diplomat Ralph Bunche. Last week, nevertheless, Bill Hartsfield, 67, won his sixth term as mayor, narrowly beating out a rival for the Democratic nomination in Atlanta's biggest mayoralty vote (one-third Negro). In Georgia the Democratic primary victory...
...Robin Douglas-Home. Tall, blond and thinly handsome, Robin was no ordinary pianist. He was nephew of the Earl of Home, who is currently the Tory leader in the House of Lords. Robin is a close friend of that young cutup, the Duke of Kent, and a frequent escort of his sister Princess Alexandra. After five years as an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders, Robin was training to be an advertising copywriter by day (at $40 a week), working as a pianist at night (at $84 a week). Soon Robin was taking Margaretha to dinner; once, dressed as Little Jack...
...King ordered General Abu Nuwar to come along, jumped into a limousine and raced toward Zerka with an escort of five jeeploads of Bedouin Tommy-gunners. On the road the convoy met the rampaging Bedouins, who went wild with cheers, firing in the air and screaming: "Down with Abu Nuwar! Down with the Communists!" One wild-eyed Bedouin officer charged toward Abu Nuwar with rifle ready. Hussein ordered him to halt, thus saved the cowering Abu Nuwar's life...
With Lady Eden he stepped immediately into a chauffered limousine and rode under state police escort to the New England Baptist Hospital where Dr. Richard B. Cattell of the Lahey Clinic was waiting...
Though she and her escort were shabbily dressed, their arrival in a dive invariably resulted in the same "sudden, startling transformation." The yipping, hollering, three-piece band would stop its "loud perversion" of hillbilly music. The patrons would stalk out, glaring venomously at the intruders. In one joint a husky bouncer planted himself beside the reporters, "cracked his fingernails and waited, just looking...