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University of California Sociologist Harry Edwards, the theorist and leader of the black athletic revolt that culminated in open protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, emphasizes blacks' limited access to other careers and describes the process that follows. He told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer: "With the channeling of black males disproportionately into sports, the outcome is the same as it would be at Berkeley if we taught and studied nothing but English. Suppose that everyone who got here arrived as a result of some ruthless recruitment process where everyone who couldn't write well was eliminated...
While Skow and Vallely were struggling to keep up with Ronstadt in New York, Los Angeles Correspondent Edward J. Boyer was talking with her fellow musicians and record company executives on the West Coast, and David DeVoss submitted a file that distilled the essence of the Los Angeles rock scene...
...rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock of recognition when he saw Roots on TV. Boyer's maternal grandparents were born slaves, and his grandfather had watched General Sherman's troops march through Georgia -marveling, as any nine-year-old boy would...
Harold N. Boyer Philadelphia...
...musicals (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Band Wagon), but some enjoyably parboiled melodramas as well (The Bad and the Beautiful, Some Came Running). Here he is working for the first time with Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted from a novel by Maurice Druon called Film of Memory, would seem suited to all: a sentimental, gilded fairy tale about a poor Italian provincial (Liza) who comes to Rome to work in a hotel. She buddies up with a batty, once regal contessa (Bergman), who urges...