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...facts & figures, modest in themselves, are symptoms of a major revolution in the life of the U.S. Negro?only half-noticed by the rest of the nation. It is a revolution which, although still far from overthrowing segregation, amounts to the biggest, most hopeful change in Negro history since Abraham Lincoln, just 90 years ago, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Says Negro Publisher (Ebony, Jet) John H. Johnson: "Every Negro is a Horatio Alger . . . His trek up from slavery is the greatest success story the world has ever known...
Still, such prophecies have been wrong before: Abraham Lincoln, on the basis of population growth in his day, estimated that the U.S would have a population of 250 million by 1930, and turned out to have predicted twice too many...
Professor Abraham Glasser, 38, of the Rutgers Law School, was called because FBI reports alleged that as a special attorney in the Department of Justice in 1938, he gave information to three OGPU agents known as "X," "Nikolai Stern" and "Ovakimian." Another Justice Department report cleared him of being a Communist agent, but recommended that he be dismissed for "careless and improper" disclosure of official information. When the committee asked whether he could identify photographs of "X" or "Stern," Glasser refused to answer. About the only thing he would say: he is not now an "actual, official, card-carrying, organizationally...
...every school of contemporary art; for the painters whose works are shown, it means acceptance into the top ranks of U.S. artists. This week the Corcoran opened its 23rd biennial show-a lavish spread of 226 paintings-and announced the four prizewinners. The $2,000 First Prize went to Abraham Rattner's glowing Composition with Three Figures (opposite). A pleasantly romantic still life by Hobson Pittman took second money, Francis Chapin sailed in third with Regatta at Edgartown (opposite), and William Congdon came fourth with a chic peek at Venice, done in glimmering impasto...
Rutgers University yesterday suspended associate Law School professor Abraham Glasser for refusing to answer some of the House Un-American Activities Committee's questions on his Communist connections...