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...names; others could hardly be stopped. Martha Kate Walker told how her blind husband's leg was hurt when a bus driver shut a door on him and drove on. Stella Brooks said her husband had been shot to death for disobeying a bus driver (her testimony was stricken from the record because she had not witnessed the shooting). Sadie Brooks told of seeing a Negro man forced from a bus at pistol-point because he did not have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said...
...Communist) Party, longtime slippery provocateur who was picked by the Russians to head the Moscow-sponsored Polish (Lublin) government during World War II and was muscled in as head of state two days after the Red army "liberated" Warsaw; of a heart attack; in Moscow, where he was stricken after attending last month's 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party...
...Democrats, or those of them whose political activity increased markedly after the President was stricken, may now lose interest in the forthcoming campaign on the theory that Mr. Eisenhower has victory in the bag. We hope this attitude will not prevail. We were not among those who believed that Republican prospects depended entirely upon Mr. Eisenhower's decision. The Republican Party is not a one-man party, and this is not a one-party country. A great many things can happen between now and November...
...victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many had a history of heavy smoking, i.e., more than a pack a day. Dr. Wynder's gloomy conclusion: because more women are smoking heavily today, they will be stricken by a sharp increase in lung cancer in 20 to 25 years...
...same, Tallulah was not only, in her own way, often remarkable, but she never really distorted the sense of the play. There was about her something not just Southern, but stricken: the horror aroused by the past, the clutched hope for the future, the crumbling desperation of the moment. If she missed pathos, she was fumbling, at least, after tragedy. The whole performance, indeed, might have come off a real tour de force-except that Tallulah's inherent force was the one thing alien to the part...