Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their leader, Leonard de Paur, 34, is a stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...
Then the boss brought forth the man he had chosen to take over Tom Stewart's job: Circuit Judge John A. Mitchell, 52, of Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years...
Reporter Irwin Rosten confronted each repairman with a portable radio "in perfect operating condition" except for a simple short circuit "in plain view." Some shops recommended repairs ("practically no two alike"): "a new condenser," "a short in the transformer," "a realignment job," "the oscillator is out of whack." Range of estimates: from $9 to $15. None mentioned the short circuit. What's more, the "radio servicemen" surreptitiously wrecked the volume control, the tuning control, two tubes and the batteries, putting the set "completely out of commission...
...onetime British Columbia cattlehand who rode his first race in 1927, he served apprenticeship on dusty Western tracks and went to Mexico and Cuba to ride the "gyp" circuit in the winter. Unlike most get-rich-quick jockeys, he saved his money after graduating to bigger tracks, lived for a while in a trailer...
...Arguing for the white primary before the U.S. circuit court of appeals in Baltimore, South Carolina Democrats insisted that their party was like a country club: it could exclude Republicans, women, lawyers, or bowlegged men if it chose. A Negro "has no more right to vote in the Democratic primaries in South Carolina than to vote in the election of officers . . . for the Colonial Dames of America...