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PHOTOCOPIED October 1, 2002; NASM PRESERVATION COPY

Words of the Week

Dr. Benjamin E. Mays: "There is no intellectual difference between the wise and the foolish; there is no physical difference; they all get tired, they all sleep; they have equal morals, honesty, integrity; but they are different in that the foolish are not prepared."

Joe Louis, after watching himself in The Joe Louis Story, the movie of his life: "I could see this 80 times a day."

Gov. Herman Talmadge of George, giving his opinion of non-segregated schools: "The most foolhardy sociological calamity in our national history and nothing less than a major step toward national suicide."

Pearl Baily: "I don't really like any of my own records. None of 'em. I feel like I want to crawl into a hole when I hear them. Sounds like a funny old big fat woman!"

Circuit Judge Eugene J. Sartorius, as he apologized to and discharged 26-year-old Lee Dell Jackson, who spent 13 months in a St. Louis jail facing charges the city attorney's office decided not to prosecute: "This isn;t a case of miscarriage of justice. This is a case of no justice."

Bandleader Stan Kenton, commenting on his European tour: "One thing our tour proved to Europeans is that white musicians can play jazz, too."

President Harry Nkumbula of the African Congress, opposing the new federation of Nyasaland, Northern and Southern Rhodesia: "We do not want to get rid of the whites, but we are not going to allow them here as bosses."

[[image - black and white photograph of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, captioned Col. Davis]]

Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., commenting on the transonic F-86 jets he will fly on his new assignment in Korea: "It's a young airplane for an old man."

^[[Jet Nov 19, 1953]]