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...resemblance between Louis and Lewis goes further than their names, which they pronounce alike. Both were born in May 1914. Both have well-to-do Negro managers, a rarity for Negro boxers. Lewis' is Gus Greenlee, whose other interests include the Pittsburgh Crawfords, a Negro professional baseball team. Both are trained by bald Jack Blackburn, famed 30 years ago as a lightweight fighter and currently as a Svengali of Negro pugilists...
Pale, saturnine Hilaire Hiler was born in St. Paul, educated at the University of Pennsylvania. All his life he wanted to be a painter, but virtually his only formal education in the arts was a few lessons on the saxophone. Serious critics have praised his work, night-club proprietors have admired his murals, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Mrs. John Work Garrett have bought his paintings...
Chaldean Francis Thomay was born in Constantinople, educated by Lazarists and Jesuits. From his youth he saw many another Christian butchered by the Turks. Ordained and stationed in Mosul during the War, Father Thomay was put in charge of 200,000 Christians deported by the Turks from Armenia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia because he was the only priest in Mosul who could speak Turkish. By the end of the War, privation had reduced his charges to 10,000. As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost...
...lusher days, some six years ago, the Sociology Department was conceived by Social Ethics, with a small heritage from the Economics Department. Since then Sociology has been left to fend for itself more than most new-born babes. To inquire whether the present plight of the department is due more to neglect by the University or to internal weakness is perhaps needlessly academic, for the interactions are extensive and varied...
...some time the American Association has been a jaded shadow of Big League baseball who hasn't fared too well itself. If enthusiasm and can fill ball parks in Association cities, Millard Trautman has the proper bellows. Trautman, new president of the American Association, was born in Bucyrus, O,, starred in three school sports, football, baseball, and basketball, repeated the stardom at Ohio State University later...