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Most important, once Charles broke the barrier between gospel and blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul?among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...
...Mexico, across the border from El Paso. "I never win anything," he confided. "I'm the worst picker of dogs in the world. I couldn't win a race if there was only one dog in it; he'd probably jump the barrier and disappear." It was, of course, Lee Trevino Night at the track. "They had signs up, and mariachis, and everything," said Trevino, who actually cashed five winning $2 tickets and seemed genuinely awed by the attention he was getting. "Jeez," he said, "you win a golf tournament and, well, you're the winner...
...Purchase of Two Decades" exhibit shows, there has been no simple pattern to Coolidge's acquisitions. Morris Louis' "Color Barrier" (1961) hangs across from a Japanese painted screen of Magnolia blossoms against a gold background, and a Rembrandt is close to a Persian miniature. The exhibit (and Coolidge's purchasing pattern) is heavy on 17th century Dutch works because few gifts have been received from that period, and light on Impressionist paintings, which Harvard received in abundance from the Wertheim bequest...
Baker, First Marshal of the Senior Class, received the Bingham Award as Harvard's most valuable athlete. Captain of the cross country team, he paced the harriers to an undefeated season and Harvard's first Heptagonal championship in a decade. With sophomore Roy Shaw, Baker chased the four minute barrier in the mile throughout the winter and spring, finally lowering the Harvard record to 4:00.2 in the Outdoor IC4A's. A very strong runner, the wiry Englishman had two other particularly outstanding days. Against Princeton he won both the mile and the half mile, setting a University record...
...maintenance employees, most of them Negro, who struck for the right to bargain collectively. "To see these middleclass, Southern white kids treating semiliterate Negro maids and janitors with dignity and respect, without any condescension, is heartening," says Faculty Member Samuel Cook. "They're not only breaking the color barrier, but the class and educational barriers." In San Francisco, 150 Bay area physicians and health workers have organized as the Medical Committee for Human Rights to mediate between the Black Panthers, one of the more militant Negro movements on the West Coast, and white authority...