Word: vesey
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...Tell them," exclaims Denmark Vesey, the Emperor Jones in face of his imminent downfall, "tell them Denmark Vesey says 'the Day will come.'" Forty years later, the Day did come...
...notice a lackadaisical G.I. in a typical G.I. pose-leaning against the wall of the sub-editors' room and blankly chewing gum. One day Christiansen struck up a conversation with the leaner, found that he was soaking up the newspaper atmosphere for future use. His name: Sergeant Richard Vesey...
...real U.S." Like most visitors, Arthur Christiansen went to New York and Washington-and to Hollywood, where the cocktail parties were "regal, magnificent." But last week the editor of the world's largest daily newspaper (circ. 3,856,375) paid a visit to his friend Dick Vesey, now a University of Wisconsin journalism student, at his home town of Plymouth...
...With Vesey as a guide, Chris and his blonde wife Brenda strolled along Plymouth's Mill Street. They talked shop with the editor of the weekly Plymouth Review (circ. 2,100), visited a cheese factory, munched Schwaller's hamburgers ("biggest in Wisconsin"). Sighed Chris: "It's wonderful!" Editor Christiansen, a gregarious man with a florid cherub's face and a mockingbird's sense of humor, felt as much at home in Plymouth as he does back home in Holland...
Some other Americans were mad. Former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle, one of those presiding at the Vesey Street hearings, said that the U.S. had "some direct responsibility in the matter." But the U.S.'s official protests had been in vain and Washington was not prepared to take further action. Only the 500 grateful U.S. fliers were still trying. Their testimony would be forwarded to Marshal Tito in a probably futile effort to save Mihailovich's life...