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...sparkplug of Louisville's Committee on Institutions is a small, bespectacled, 58-year-old businessman named George W. Stoll. One Sunday in 1940, Methodist Stoll left church after an especially inspiring sermon. He overheard someone say: "I've heard a lot of sermons like that. They inspire you to do something for your fellow men, but they never tell you what to do or how to do it." Then & there, Oilman Stoll decided that he would put Christian idealism to work in civic life...
...week] days I went for three walks . . . once to the Cloisters of the Nikolaskirche, once to the Poppelsdorfer Schloss and once to the Beethovenhaus, which was closed"). It also has passages in which Poet Spender writes like a naive old schoolmaster-e.g., his report of a conversation he overheard between a couple of dreamy German lovers. "They discussed unrealistically how they would spend their honeymoon. They said they would get a Mercedes-Benz and travel. . . . What was extraordinary about this conversation was that . . . it was without the slightest shadow of guilt...
Even in extra-curricular activities she feels like a robot. She begins to brood over remarks such as this one overheard in St. Clair's and made by a Harvard man to a Radcliffe girl: "You be quiet; you're just here to look pretty." This, of course, was followed by a declaration of the ugliness of Radcliffe women...
...Velasco's boys had overheard, were prepared. Just before the balloting started, pro-Velasco Army officers filled the lobbies, toying conspicuously with their revolvers and kicking their sabers about. When the electors filed in, picked Velasco rooters also glared ominously from packed galleries. At 2 a.m. voting began. One by one, to the horror of Boss Suarez, sweating Conservatives stood up and voted for reelection. It was Velasco, 43-to-10-as simple as that...
Near Collins, Miss. Buddy Wolfe, a Negro, dropped in to a highway cafe for a cup of coffee. Deputy Sheriff John Lewis dropped in at the same time, opened the ice box and demanded to be sold four pounds of lard. Lewis thought he overheard someone in the cafe make a critical remark. In the scuffle that followed Buddy Wolfe, father of ten, went down under a blackjack, was shot thrice. Last week Lewis was also free under $2,000 bond. The charge: murder...