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...Mother Goose's story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
...themselves-wrote to explain that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such letters were vivid proof that he had hold of a good story. At week's end he ordered Norma...
...weapon, one protested without a break in gum-chewing rhythm: "I didn't have no weapon. I just had a knife and one of them .22-caliber things." Why was one inmate beaten up? "He was not too popular. He was classified as a rat if you wanna put it that way." Governor Clyde, standing shoulder-deep in convicts, agreed that the grievances were "submitted in sincerity" and "they'll be considered." As the camera pulled back, a convict muttered something inaudible, and the broadcast ended with this exchange...
Characteristically, Bogie went out belting. On Saturday night, the Homely Hills Rat Pack--a crowd of millionaire and movie star drinking pals--met as usual at Bogie's to trade barbs with the "head rat." Lauren ("Baby") Bacall, his fourth wife who first drew his attention in To Have and Have Not when she told him, "If you want anything, all you have to do is whistle," presided as "den mother." Monday morning the children went off to school as usual...
...When the Chicago Tribune's WGN scheduled the biographical film Martin Luther for its U.S. TV première, Roman Catholics swamped the station with protesting letters, postcards and telephone calls. Sample: "We object to you showing the film because it makes a hero out of a rat." WGN abruptly canceled the movie. That set up a new clamor. Lutherans, other Protestants, some Jewish groups objected furiously, sent 1,000 telegrams of protest in a single day. The National Council of Churches called the cancellation "a blow to religious liberty." Cried an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman: "This thing...