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Midst laurels stood: ex-Astronaut John Glenn, 42, named winner of the $5,000 George Washington Award, highest honor of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation, "for inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
News Front was started in 1957 by Baldwin H. Ward, 51, a onetime advertising salesman, and nearly died at birth. Advertising, News Front's sole source of revenue, fell to three to five pages an issue during the recession of 1957-58. All told, says Ward, he dropped $400,000 before nudging News Front barely into the black last fall...
...debators could not even agree on the accuracy of the title of the conference. Farmer said the civil rights movement was "part two of the American Revolution." Kilpatrick denied this. "James Farmer isn't Washington, James Baldwin isn't Jefferson, Martin Luther King isn't Patrick Henry," he said...
...join big Wall Street law firms. After losing to F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm has changed its handle to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
...shamefully disproportionate percentage of Negroes. I will admit that most of the Roxbury and Dorchester residents who would have taken advantage of the reduced rate would be black. But must we be blamed because most of the white residents would not care to "waste their time" listening to Baldwin? Even if we had reduced the rate for only the Negro residents of Roxbury and Dorchester, must we really be blamed for showing that our sympathies are especially for the seething masses of oppressed and degraded Negroes in the slums? Let there be no doubt about the fact that our primary...