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Replied his companion: "Because this one came from Baldwin...
That was a surprise. Baldwin has for years made excellent pianos for both the concert stage and home. But although used by many orchestras and some solo ists, the Baldwin has never been the first choice of most top concert pianists, who complain that its sound, instead of ringing out, dies away with a metallic clunk and bogs down their tonal flights...
...perhaps we had better integrate as quickly and fully as possible with a people who have endured 300 years of systematic dehumanization with only occasional lapses into the kind of subhuman behavior we seem to be getting almost regularly from our fellow whites. We may well find that James Baldwin is right-that integration will prove the boon of the white more than the Negro...
...coax homeowners into selling by alarming them with stories of a Negro influx.) Wherever white residents resist the impulse to get out and cooperate in integrating a Negro family in a neighborhood instead, values not only fail to fall but frequently rise. The first Negro family moved to Baldwin, L.I., eight years ago, and nine soon followed; houses then worth $9,000 are now selling for $17,000, paralleling the general trend in steadily increasing realty values. According to a study of 1,810 neighborhoods in 47 U.S. cities, property values increased in the 1950s, when the Negro middle-class...
What Wally Wanted. Beaverbrook is at his sprightly and informative best when he sticks to a straight narrative of the events that eventually led to the abdication. He felt, as did most other insiders, that Edward made his greatest strategic blunder when he stated in November that unless Baldwin and his government approved a morganatic marriage with Mrs. Simpson, he would not go through with his coronation in May. Both Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward...