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...mail box at the corner of Peachtree and Houston Streets when there came from nearby Pryor Street a roar . . . which sent a sensation of mingled fear and excitement coursing through my body . . . We saw a lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after new prey. The body with the withered...
...Shame!" In the National Guard Armory the air was fragrant with thousands of blossoms. Soft music wafted across the dappled, indoor, 1¾ acres, and Ike's entrance caused a mob scene. The President's first stop was at a 5O-ft. bower of white tulips, English boxwood, azaleas, dogwood and rhododendron, which had been planted in honor of Mamie and would be transplanted intact to the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Ike was particularly impressed by a shoulder-high serpentine wall that enclosed the garden; he had never seen one before...
...afternoon, tension built up in the city (pop. 1,046,000). Gangs of young hoodlums bought standing-room tickets and packed the Forum galleries. As the disorganized Canadiens began to boot away the game, the mob's mood blackened. Campbell's cocky arrival, just before the first period ended (with Les Canadiens behind, 2-0), touched off a barrage of peanuts, rotten fruit, galoshes and programs. One spectator pushed past Campbell's police guard and walloped him twice across the face...
...Mob of Hoodlums. Riot was just a breath away when someone touched off a tear-gas bomb. Blinded, and choking on the thick smoke, spectators groped their way out of the Forum. Outside, the mob grew. Some 8,000 strong, it flowed down St. Catherine Street, blocked traffic and cheered when a truckload of kids shouted "Vive le Rocket!" Soon the hoodlums took over. Rocks arched through the yellow haze of street lights and store windows shattered. Jewelry shops were looted. Streetcars took a pasting. It was 2:30 a.m. before the Montreal cops had the city back under control...
When the Rock and his mob got tired of "shlepping" (roaming the city and looting parked cars), or "window Bopping" (heaving a lead ball through shop windows and hooking merchandise with stiff wires), or summertime "radio fishing'' (prowling rooftops and reeling in radios from open windows by their antennas). they would swagger into one of the local Communist clubs. "We would listen to them spouting off all this stuff we didn't understand. We would sign petitions with phony names. Then all the listening and signing paid off when we took these Communist broads in the back...