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...pilots who landed and looked around found the scene not familiar at all. All twelve of the gray-clad cadets and the one slim young officer student were Negroes, charter members of the Air Forces' 99th (all Negro) Pursuit Squadron, soon to become the first Negro flying officers of the U.S. Army...
Eight miles away a new field is abuilding where the 99th Squadron will make its permanent home. Built at a cost of $2,000,000 (by Negro contracting firm), the new field is bigger (1,642 acres) than many a famed army airdrome, will have 42 buildings when it is completed...
Last week the U. S. Army opened its. Air Corps to Negroes. It was a tiny opening (one squadron, the 99th pursuit), but an opening it was. Thirty-three Negro pilots, 276 ground men for the squadron will get their initial training at Chanute Field, Ill., and at a new field at Tuskegee, Ala., hard by famed Tuskegee Institute. White officers will train the first batch of fliers, may later give way to colored instructors as Negro graduates get their wings and commissions as second lieutenants...
Smart, quiet Judge William Henry Hastie, dean of Howard University School of Law in Washington, who is Secretary of War Stimson's adviser on Negro affairs, engineered the formation of the 99th. Many Negroes applauded his feat, but many squawked. Their complaint: segregation of the 99th. Until Negro cadets went to the same air schools, joined the same squadrons that white fliers did, these fighters for race equality would consider it a Jim Crow Air Corps...
...think you will find that for all its charm the symphony is but a pale copy of eighteenth-century models. Perfectly constructed in every way, harmonically and melodically and rhythmically irreproachable, still it is patently thin. It lacks the emotional guts that made a Mozart E-flat or Haydn 99th great. In short, it succeeds only as a technical imitation. Compare another early Schubert symphony, the Fourth or "Tragic," with its eighteenth-century counterpart, the Mozart G-minor. At first glance the two are strikingly alike. Their plan of construction is almost identical. Both are based on a type...