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White Panic. The trouble began on Saturday night, Nov. 13, at the enlisted men's club. Tension flared at closing time when a white civilian bus driver was overheard to say, "I don't want no niggers on my bus." A group of blacks descended on another bus and ejected a white couple, but they in turn were run off by a black military policeman. Later the black soldiers began filing back to their barracks; their number grew as they paraded past the officers' quarters. Then an off-duty white MP who found himself driving in their...
...always went to the same telephone booth in a gas station to make his calls. One day the owner's wife overheard him saying something about a painting. When he hung up, the owner tailed him on his motorcycle, while his wife called the police. The thief tried to cut across fields, but was finally caught cowering behind a heap of manure. The boy identified himself as Mario Roymans, 21. In his small apartment above a restaurant where he worked as a waiter, the lost Vermeer was found under his bed. Roymans' knife had sliced an inch...
Where did the author get this previously unrecorded conversation? Was it a line overheard by J.F.K.'s chauffeur? A scene invented by Prescott in the throes of madness? A wink to the initiated? Only the late Julian Prescott, alas, could have said for sure...
...organization. Ironically, the judges on the local level are usually more competent than those at Atlantic City, where the panel is stacked with national celebrities to add glamour and prestige. Not all of them have taken their jobs entirely seriously. Publisher Bennett Cerf, a judge in 1958, was overheard to inquire, "Do you think they're all certified virgins?" No such assurances are sought, although such extreme measures are taken to separate the contestants from the male sex that at times it seems as if the pageant were run by members of a Sapphic cult. Contestants are not supposed...
...Republicans-spoke in favor of it. One of them, New York's Barber Conable, was so persuasive that Connally suggested that he should be the chief spokesman for the bill. No one disagreed. Connally was not in this instance playing his usual role of supersalesman. Mills was overheard saying: "His heart was not in it." When Tennessee Democrat Richard Fulton ended his questioning, he told the Secretary: "I do not want to be premature, but I do tender you my condolences...