Word: all-negro
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...from the Basement. In all-Negro Douglas High School, one of Marshall's uncles gave him an A in algebra, but in grammar school he was repeatedly punished for breaking rules. Day after day, the principal sentenced Marshall to the basement, and allowed him to leave only when he had learned a section of the U.S. Constitution. "Before I left that school" he says, "I knew the whole thing by heart." He does not contend that the seeds of his career sprouted in the basement, but such discipline did reinforce a respect for authority, which he retains in uneasy...
...went off to Lincoln University, near Chester, Pa., an institution then with an all-Negro student body and an all-white faculty. The important event of his undergraduate years occurred at the Cherry street Memorial Church in Philadelphia...
Crazy Schedules. Campy was only 15 when the owner of the Bacharach Giants, an all-Negro semi-pro team, offered Mrs.' Campanella $353 week for her son's serv ices on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sun days. Mrs. Campanella boggled at the idea of Sabbath baseball, agreed only when the Bacharachs' owner promised that wher ever the team was playing, he himself would take Roy to church on Sunday...
...hottest journalistic issue (TIME, Jan. 17) in the South: desegregation of the public schools. But Editor Carter is finding the middle ground an even hotter place to stand than the extremes. Last week in an editorial, Carter blasted visiting Michigan Democratic Congressman Charles C. Diggs, who told an all-Negro audience that "the hour in Mississippi is two minutes to midnight" for complete desegregation of the schools. Wrote Carter: "This is precisely the kind of inflammatory approach to interracial adjustments that this newspaper has been opposing for years. Whatever the source, it is virtually an invitation to battle...
...Force captain stationed in England has demonstrated how even an amateur producer can prosper in the West End. When British pros refused to finance 43-year-old Max Morgan, who wanted to put on an all-Negro musical revue, the New York-born captain found his angels among 65 Air Force men at the 19 U.S. bases in Britain. Fired by the $50,000 the flyers shoveled into it, Jazz Train screeched into London's Piccadilly Theater last week and had critics shouting that it was the best musical since Blackbirds...