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...NASH Memphis, Tenn. Sirs: FOR YOUR INFORMATION WE THE SHELBI LEADING SECRET ORGANIZATION OF THE MEMPHIS COTTON CARNIVAL RESENT YOUR BIASED ARTICLE IN TIME NEXT YEAR PLEASE KEEP YOUR WHITE TRASH IN CHICAGO AND SEND US A GENTLEMAN REPORTER THE SHELBI Memphis, Tenn. Budd's Face Sirs: Very few of the newshawks, including TIME'S own experts, noticed a most interesting episode of the Burlington Zephyr's wonderful record-breaking trip from Denver to Chicago [TIME, June 4]: at almost the last minute and as the train was poised to make its eastbound leap from Denver...
...five days and five nights last week the 250,000 citizens of loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in one grand, rip-snorting jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard...
...peril increases and the play becomes more intense, its shabby cloak of propaganda happily falls away. Stevedore turns into a glorious melodrama in the grand manner of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. As a finale, the Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly partisan audience found itself cheering not for the symbolism of a workers...
Patrick "Tommy" Tucker is one of the survivors of that golden age and he tells a few rambling recollections in this delightful little book. It has nothing in common with the trash of Hollywood "Westerns," except that old friend, the word "hoss." Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental...
...night frantically copying, exclaiming, "It is a crime to sleep!" Before long he had induced the St. Catherine monks to give the manuscript to the Tsar as protector of their church. In return the Tsar gave the monastery $3,500, the abbot and other dignitaries decorations. Last week this trash basket manuscript, now the famed Codex Sinaiticus, was bought by the British Museum for $511,250 (?100,000) from the Soviet Government. Under secrecy and heavy guard, it was moved from Moscow to London...