Word: alaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Johnson took over, the university had few things to boast about. It had a flourishing medical school, and its faculty included such teachers as Philosopher Alain Locke, the first and only Negro Rhodes scholar. But it had little money, and when Mordecai Johnson appeared before Congress to ask for more, one Representative bluntly warned him: "Young man, we may as well come to an understanding. We have no obligation to consider the needs of Howard." Johnson took his case to the Department of the Interior, persuaded Assistant Secretary Edward Finney that the Government had a "moral obligation...
...some five years ago (reportedly after a conversation with Bing Crosby), a Parisian antique dealer named Alain Bernardin got to ruminating over the difference between U.S. art forms and those of his own country. "There is nothing," he concluded, "as horrible as a naked woman standing stock still on a stage with an idiotic look on her face." Crazy. With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players...
Fernandel first appears as Edouard Saint Forget, the father of quintuplets, named in order of birth, Alain, Bernard, Charles, Desire, and Etienne. When they are forty years old and widely scattered, their godfather sets out to reunite them, with an eye toward enhancing the glory, and the commercial success, of a village fair. Their personalities, naturally, all prove to be completely different, and most of them have strange occupations. One is the most famous beautician in France. Another is a lonely hearts journalist, writing under the name Aunt Nicole. The others are a ship captain, a priest, and a window...
...Reader Brace has plenty of company. Wrote Howard University's late Philosopher Alain Locke: "James Chapin has pioneered significantly in exploring the deeper traits and personalities of Negro subjects." His better-known subjects: Negro Boxer, Negro Girl, Blues Concert (of Actress Ethel Waters), and Ruby Green Singing (TIME, Sept. 28, 1953). Thurgood Marshall is Chapin's first TIME cover...
...family failure, is a charming fellow who supports his pregnant wife and four small daughters by washing windows for an undertaker and borrowing from brother Alain. He hits on a scheme to enrich himself when the agate-eyed undertaker offers him 60,000 francs to sign a "dying wish," asking Alain to provide him with a de luxe funeral. The undertaker thereupon makes Désiré sick through autosuggestion, and rapidly pushes him to the brink of the de luxe funeral, only to drop dead himself. Désiré recovers instantly and signs himself (and Alain...