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...late Robert S. Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...
Last week a newspaper drama hinged on whether Mrs. Abbott No. 2 could prove her race. In Chicago a cousin of childless Publisher Abbott filed petition to oust Mrs. Abbott from the Abbott estate and control of the waning Defender. Grounds: that she is white, hence was illegally married six years ago in Indiana (whose laws prohibit miscegenation...
...last game, the flashy-looking but low-scoring league leading Puritans defeated Leverett on goals by Goldthwait, Wood, and Abbott. Gigantic Will Nichoil tallied Leverett's lone marker...
...door stencilled no admittance. They are the official hello girls of Harvard University--the telephone operators of KIR 7600, which since 1934 has been Harvard's number. Forty main truck lines lead into their switchboard and over six hundred local phones are in the system, ranging from Miss Abbott through a multitude of organizations and professors to Zoology Museum. Direct wires tie in the various graduate schools, Western Union, Postal Telegraph, and Radcliffe...
Here is a letter from my recently mobilized "little" brother [Staff Sergeant Lysle I. Abbott, at Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark.]. He is 22 years old; graduated from college last year and intends to resume his education in law after his military service is completed...