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...while Epps was touring with the Harvard Glee Club, the group traveled to perform in locales where blacks were unwelcome. On one occasion in 1965, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Elliot Forbes ’40 reportedly received bomb threats because of plans for Epps to participate in a Birmingham, Ala., concert. Epps was “quietly, deeply upset” when the Glee Club performed without him at the show, Glee Club Secretary William White ’65 said at the time...
...campaigners as Sabine Braun of Germany and Belarus' Natalya Sazanovich. The IAAF dubbed her a "rising star" and a Swedish national radio poll even labeled her Swede of the Year. This year has been just as heady. In March she won the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, with personal bests in 60-m sprint, high jump, shot put and long jump. In June she moved outdoors to Tallinn, Estonia, where she scored 6,692 points beating reigning Olympic champion, Denise Lewis, to bring her ever closer to the senior record. There's little doubt that Kluft...
...reflecting the widespread conviction that Bush owes Blair a favor in return for his loyalty during the Iraq war, caught the national mood at Prime Minister's question time: "Put your foot down, Prime Minister!" None of this noise filters back to Camp Delta, where Moazzam Begg, 35, from Birmingham, and Feroz Abbasi, 23, from south London, spend their days in a kind of timeless limbo, residing in dorms 2.4 m by 2 m, in heat that often reaches 38?C, where they're permitted as little as 30 minutes, three times per week, for exercise. As a teenager...
Johnny may soon clutch Mom's leg, begging to be taken to Saks. No, he's crying not for the Bruno Magli shoes or credit-card points toward a Disney vacation but for fancy train sets and the latest Legos. In May, Saks--the Birmingham, Ala.--based owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, Parisian and other regional department stores--bought a $5 million stake in upscale toy retailer FAO. Saks plans to add an FAO boutique to 22 of its stores by September and FAO displays in 245 of its locations for the holidays. "FAO should have done this long...
...Johnson administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights...