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Died. Katharine Cornell, 81, empress of the American theater; of pneumonia; in Vineyard Haven, Mass. "Kit" Cornell grew up in Buffalo, where her father gave up a medical practice to manage a playhouse. She joined the Washington Square Players in New York in 1917, did stock parts in Buffalo and Detroit, and caught the notice of Guthrie McClintic, a young director. They married in 1921, the year Cornell first played on Broadway, starting one of the theater's most auspicious connubial collaborations. During the 40 years of their marriage, McClintic directed Cornell in almost all of her roles...
...Birmingham change from a city so segregated that civil rights workers called it the "toughest town outside of South Africa" to an "All-America" city cited by the National Municipal League for its progress in race relations. In 1961, when Davis returned with a degree from the University of Buffalo law school, "you could feel the tension. The white lawyers weren't friendly. You sort of felt alone." Today, things are relaxed enough for Davis to joke with white judges about his greatgrandfather, B.F. Saffold, a 19th century justice on Alabama's supreme court. June Davis...
...show of 126 drawings and pastels and 25 bronzes, organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which opened last week at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It will later be seen at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston...
...politics as middle class disenchantment is simply impossible. DeFreeze was the eldest son of a poor and unstable black family in Cleveland. His father punished him three times when a child by breaking both his arms. He dropped out of high school at the age of 14, moved to Buffalo, N.Y., joined a street gang, and was arrested for grand larceny two years later...
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