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...root of all evil, says the Bible, is the love of money. The root of most evil, says Dr. Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, topflight British geneticist, is the potato...
...good many people in Hainesville thought they knew who was in the gang that killed Nathan Hamilton's pretty wife and three other Negroes. But smart people weren't saying. The Aycock boys and Bilsy Shoup were put on trial for "intimidating a Federal witness"-they had beaten up a Negro who saw them cleaning their guns. But Bilsy and the Aycocks pleaded self-defense, and they were acquitted, as everyone had known they would...
...Author Gordon's fictional echo, with alterations, of the 1946 lynchings near Monroe, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1946), two people weren't content to let the case rest. One of them was Melady, a New York reporter who had covered the intimidation trial. The other was Nathan Hamilton, husband of one of the victims. Up North when the verdict came, Nathan packed a Luger in his bag and started south...
Reporter Melady gets the truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...
This week, hauled before the congressional committee, he reluctantly consented to name three men who had been fellow Communists in the '30s-John Abt, Nathan Witt and Charles Kramer, three other former New Deal job holders in Wallace's AAA. This, however, was as far as he wanted to go. He apparently hoped it was far enough to get back to a new law practice among loyal Americans, with an honorable scar to bare to the clients...