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Never an integrationist. Editor Ashmore won a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for his protests against the Little Rock mob and the way it was goaded into lawlessness by Governor Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago, "will not allow a tiny, militant minority to take over Central High School and run it under mob rule." Gazette circulation dropped from 99,573 to 88,068, while the pro-Faubus Arkansas Democrat took up the slack. Ashmore refused to be bullied, and an attempted advertising boycott failed...
...mob came, to be entertained by panem and circenses. The panis was 600 gallons of rather watery punch, served on Wednesday afternoons in the Yard. The circus consisted of a plenthora of diversions, from concerts at Tanglewood to mixers in the Union...
...Britain's Ambassador Andrew G. Gilchrist, began pitching stones and bricks. Inside, Ambassador Gilchrist, a 48-year-old Scot with a Vandyke beard, reacted in the approved pukka sahib tradition. He put on a bagpipe recording to drown out the shouts from the street, and remarked of the mob's marksmanship that "if they were cricket players, they would be better shots." He further daunted the unruly natives by walking his dog at the height of the uproar and coolly staring down the nearest mobsters. "Nothing to it," he remarked casually, returning to his window-shattered residence...
...Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken from the rioters. "It's become a teen-age sport," said the officer in charge of West London night operations...
...Dunkirk (Ealing; M-G-M). Blimey! 'Ow could 'e do it? 'Ere's this bloke, see, this Mike Balcon-'e ain't no bloody amateur when there's a camera abaht. 'E did aowl' Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an' with not much 'elp neither, financially so to speak, and they're sayin' 'e's brilliant, 'e's got it made. A ruddy, stained-glass genius, that's what they called 'im. 'E's no genius...