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...little espionage is not unusual among delegates. Shaffer thinks that in Michigan there are now 33 uncommitted delegates ("We have organized a group to keep one another posted"), but suspects that at least a dozen of them will succumb to the blandishments of their fallen brethren (i.e., the committed) before July...
...Negroes are going to care for Invisible Man. Ellison, a Tuskegee graduate who has shined shoes and played first trumpet in a jazz band, obviously thinks little of Negroes who educate themselves beyond the point of sympathy for their underprivileged brethren. He has no prescriptions except that a Negro, or any man, had better learn to be what he is. "Whenever I discover whe I am, I'll be free," says the boy. "I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own." At the end, the fog of his confusions lifting, Author Ellison...
Boyhood: spent at Abilene, in a frame house with three acres. Family circumstances: poor and puritanical. Ike once had to wear his mother's high-button shoes to school. Father David, who eked out a living as a mechanic in a Brethren-operated creamery, gave much attention to Bible reading. Mother Ida, a strong personality and lifelong pacifist who eventually joined Jehovah's Witnesses, held the household together. There were seven children, all sons, of whom four besides the general are still alive-Arthur B., 65, a Kansas City banker; Edgar N., 63, a Tacoma (Wash.) attorney; Earl...
Born: Oct. 14, 1890, at Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth, had met at Lane University, a United Brethren school in Lecompton, Kans.; after failing in a general-store business at Hope, Kans., father David moved his family briefly to Texas, where he worked as a railroad hand, but soon returned to Kansas...
...some, these remarks may smack of religious jingoism, but we feel it is past time for American Catholics to be relieved from the oppressive burden of our Spanish brethren. We have spent weary hours cleaning up the blood the Spaniards overzealously spilt in the Inquisition. If they wish to call the cops on the Protestants four centuries late, they can take the blame themselves...