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Only the chorus stanzas were well done last night, however, and even they suffered from a less able orchestral group recruited from the Cambridge Civic Symphony. At times the trumpet section alone threatened to destroy the well-blended harmonies Miss Hiatt received from her singers...
Died. James David Zellerbach, 71, chairman of Crown-Zellerbach Corp., world's second largest forest-products firm, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1956 to 1960, a slight, bespectacled Californian, who took over the family company in 1938, helped its sales grow to nearly $600 million, found time for civic enterprises (the San Francisco Symphony, Golden Gateway redevelopment plan), served ably in a dozen public posts and produced in his private vineyard a California wine that made French diplomats swallow respectfully; of a brain tumor; in San Francisco...
...this matter should maintain an inflexible stand. It will require statesmanship on the part of both the NAACP and the School Committee to recognize that the problem exists and that it cannot be solved in any simple manner. What is needed in Boston is the mutual cooperation of civic officials and Negro leaders to work toward long-range solutions to these problems which admit of no easy answers. To pretend that such answers exist will only exacerbate the unrest in the Negro community, and force the whites back on the defensive in another round of destructive recriminations...
...neither all black nor white, but shades of gray" is applicable to the problem of full Civil Rights for the Negro in America. The same Civil Rights that the Negro is struggling to realize through constitutional processes, are the same Civil Rights that every American has a moral and civic duty to uphold. There is no racial monopoly on these rights and duties. How can any American, committed to these rights for every other American, be expected to "step-aside" or "step-down" in this crucial period in America's effort to realize its full potential for the cause...
...Mario Thomas, 23, daughter of Comedian Danny Thomas, "started out to be quite normal and almost made it," but eventually turned from English teaching to a starring part in the Hollywood Civic Playhouse's Sunday in New York...