Word: brownness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, a terrified young Negro woman, Mrs. Odessa Booker, found refuge in a farmhouse near Tampa, Fla., and told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...
...Brown was arrested. Last week an all-white jury found him guilty of assault with intent to rape. Tampa's Judge Roy Amidon commented: "This is the most reprehensible case that ever came before me. It is much worse than if the races of the participants were reversed." He sentenced Brown to 20 years in the state penitentiary...
...Captain Jerry Gorman and sophomore Bob Berke took first and second in the 220-yd. freestyle to put the Crimson well ahead. Edgar worked a first place for MIT in the 50-yd. freestyle but was closely followed to the tiles by Marv Hull and Sandy Brown, both of the varsity...
Things settled back down to their casual pace after this, as the Crimson's Larry Ward beat teammate Hoelzer, who in turn beat Pelletier of Tech. Then Ted Norris swam away from two Engineers who had lapped Brown's best swimmers last week in the 440-yd. breaststroke, and Hull, Killoran, Lange, and Tolf made an easy affair...
...Freshman squad faces a much harder assignment than the Varsity to-night, judging by the M.I.T. freshmen's recent loss to a good Brown team by only three points...