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...peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce: "It is the policy of the club to consider and accept members without regard to race...
...famed West Side Tennis Club, scene of the biggest U.S. tournaments and within walking distance of Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with the club's president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response: the biggest tennis club in the U.S.'s largest Negro community, the world's biggest Jewish community, excludes both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche, the admission of Ralph Jr. would mean the resignation of at least...
...Pound Weight--Won by Cohen (C); second, Burglund (H); third, Lindner (H). Distance...
...will compete in the field events are Burglund, Kilgour, and Burke who will throw the hammer, Captain Dunker and Potter, who will put the shot. Laimbeer, who will throw the discus, and Kane, who will run the 400-yard hurdles...
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