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Died. Dr. R. Walter Johnson, 72, the Negro physician whose hobby was molding promising black youngsters into tennis greats; in Lynchburg, Va. Credited with cracking the color line on public courts and in tournaments, Johnson took a teen-ager from Harlem named Althea Gibson under his wing in 1947 and prepared her for two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Six years later he befriended a frail ten-year-old named Arthur Ashe Jr. "What made me maddest," Johnson once commented, "was this idea that colored athletes . . . couldn't learn stamina or finesse...
...variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many an Aquarian-Ager has been able to convert his basement into a tape factory. Nearly every city has record stores, gas stations and supermarkets with selections of bootlegged tapes and records, which are usually packaged in unadorned boxes and albums with plain white covers...
...material gathered by Ostling and other correspondents went to Mayo Mohs, who has written our religion section for the past 2½ years. Mohs had his first personal encounter with hip street evangelists while looking at the movement in Los Angeles. "A fresh-faced teen-ager in a pullover and corduroys came up to me on Hollywood Boulevard and talked about Jesus nonstop," he recalls. "When she finally finished, her friends congratulated her on a 'terrific witness.' It was the easiest interview I ever had." L.A. Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand was covering a religious service at Imperial Beach when...
...skills in the telling of this fatal drama. His account is disorganized and repetitious. It runs pretty far afield, too, variously embracing such things as Michener's view of faculty tenure (he is against it) and the origins of Opalocka, Fla., home town of the famous runaway teen-ager photographed grieving over one of the dead students...
However, sources have indicated that Land was not only willing but ?ager to discuss the South Africa question. According to John J. McCann '64, a member of Land's staff who was to assist in presenting materials for the lecture, Land had brought with him for distribution to the audience at the lecture about 200 copies of an article from Boston Magazine supporting the Polaroid position in South Africa...