Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1956-06-08
BRIEF
NEWS
SCENE
High and Lowdown"
BY BAILEE THOMAS


every now and then in local Ne
gro newspaper newsrooms Is the
one about snooty. neurotic dam
sci who moved here from Chicago
a few years ago.
An airy creature who looked
down her nose at these provincial
Minnesotans" for some reason.
she kept her tongue wagging a.
bout the crudities of the com
munity in which she had chosen to
h'e' 30
Nobody, but nobody escaped
her acid tongue. She accepted in
vitatons by the boat-load, but
found something wrong with the
entertaining habits OF each hos.
tess.
She finally met her Waterloo
when she phoned irately 10 local
newshen and demanded that she
never print her name in another
guest list, in the social columns
A few months later said dame
was "A guest ut a swank affair,
which featured some well known
names. When the affair was re-
ported on the social page her
name was naturally omitted
because Of her previous loud
objections.
Imagine the surprise Of the
lady newswriter when this party
called demanding to know why her
name was omitted Bailee was
not around when the call came in.
but he understands said lady heard
some OF the choicest cuss words
ever visited upon her ear.
After ten years. the newshen
in question. still tries 20 satisfy
the lady's original request by
keeping her name out and off all
guest lists she happens 10 pre-
pare for publication. As far as this
one newspaper woman goes, the
lady is sull Mrs. Twin City An
onymous.
Two days after the Nsgroes I'm
Tallahassee began a boycott of
the local bus lines in protest a.
gainst bus driver brutality and
mistreatment OF Negro passen-
gers, a northern Minnesota banker
sent this papers Boss Man a
check for $50 10 be sent 10 Florida
TO help the bus boycotters,
Republican editors are highly
sensitive about photographs of
Ike" which seem TO show the ef.
fects OF his coronary. The neces-
sity for keeping his weight down
naturally reflects In the cast Of
his face and the are unmlstakable
signs in his face that he is be-
low his old weight and has been a
sick man.
Presidential election or no
presidential election u seems
that II Is just darn fooIishness
to have "A man who has suffered
severe hart attack only "A few
months ago deliver three major
Speeches all In one night NJ
Ike" did recently.
IL II true that the potent Min
neapolis ST papers are going in
dependent politically from now
on7 That's the rumor going n
round the two towns
4 poll Of University Of Florida
white students show out Of 3
favor school Indignation. Parents
are against having their college
age children attend school with
Florida Negro students by a big
majority
Considerable heat IL being put
on Congressman William l.. Daw-
son. vice-chairnAn Of the Demo
cratic national committee for his
seeming reluctance TO discuss the
civil rights facts Of life with party
leaders.
People, no matter how popular
and fawned upon In their hour OF
success will find that friends viii
disappear like snow In July the
minute they get in trouble. A Chi
cago magazine editor has found
that out recently
Archbishop Joseph Francis
Rummeu denounced race segrega-
ton az morally wrong and sin
full tn a recent pastoral letter
William Faulkner. IN current Hsr-
per's Magazine says the biggest
disappointment in the current de-
bate in his native Misassippi and
the South has BEEN the failure of
the church 20 face the situation
and totn the side Of right and so
cial justice
Mr. Faulkner writes
"usa-a u that voice the
chErrhsp row which should have
p-op014H1ed perhaps two but GER
tAlnly ore ~ these E'iii-unAr-
sWsr~d questions
~ TIE ConEtitu'ion - the