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...most spectacular illustration of the Negroes' loyalty to the U.S. is the Communists' crashing failure to win recruits among them: by FBI estimates, no more than 1,400 Negroes ever belonged to the Communist Party at one time. Dr. Carlton Goodlett, young San Francisco Negro leader, gives these reasons: "More than anyone else, the Negro believes in the American opportunity to better himself. The Communist he sees as a rundown, underprivileged guy. The Negro just isn't interested in the underdog role. Secondly, he has learned to believe in the right to protest. People like myself, always protesting against injustice...
Died. Newcomb Carlton, 84, longtime (1914-43) president and chairman of the board of Western Union; in White Plains, N.Y. Originator of the Night Letter to keep Western Union's wires humming full time, Carlton led the company's expansion from its far-strung web of Morse keys to a giant network of modern telegraphic printers. He scoffed at "stuffed shirts" in business, made a point of never lecturing his messenger boys on the rewards of hard work. Rather: "It's the breaks. Success depends upon which side of the street you were walking...
Where Fronts Meet. Last week, at No. 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, the Huggins scheme was-earnestly debated. There were good arguments for federation: copper-rich Northern Rhodesia needs Southern Rhodesia's coal; both need Negro labor from overcrowded Nyasaland. Even more compelling in Sir Godfrey's eyes is the fact that Britain's East African empire is in danger of being submerged. "A Black Front," he says, "is advancing from [the Gold Coast]; a White Front [Boer South Africa] is moving from the south." Without federation, he told the conference, "the Rhodesias will become the clashing...
...that he knew the three planners of the Brink's hold-up. To Massachusetts authorities, he was still a liar. But the Rhode Island Attorney General believed his story, insisted that police here interrogate Gagnon. One of the three masterminds, Gagnon maintained, was a roadhouse proprietor named Carlton O'Brien. Massachusetts officials still scoffed at Gagnon's story. Fifty-six hours later, they found O'Brien--riddled with bullets. The other two suspects were non-productive, had many alibis...
FROM HIS HOUSE on Woodley Road he sets out daily to the intelligent lunch, the enlightening interview at the Carlton or the Willard; only rarely he visits the turbulent Hill; sometimes he garners a few words heavy with meaning in the late afternoon in a Georgetown parlor...