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...routine thing for Hannah-when not chairing the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights-to field questions from Civil Service Commission Chairman John Macy about a prospective appointee to a high federal job. Atlanta University's Rufus Clement keeps a card file near his desk on every U.S. Negro that he considers worthy of a high position in Government and education, for queries from Washington...
...effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate. Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
...Caribbean like a Gulf Stream of the spirit. In the new generation, the stream has been strengthened by a number of remarkable young writers-among them an important lyric poet (Derek Walcott), an insightful critic (L. E. Brathwaite) and dozens of gifted storytellers (V. S. Reid, Samuel Selvon, Clement Richer, Lydia Cabrera, Albert Helman). Many of them are Negro or part-Negro, and they write in several languages (Dutch, English, French, Spanish). Their works, sampled in this arresting anthology by U.S. Poet Barbara Howes, insistently betray a family resemblance. They are earthy, passionate, gay, fantastic, funny-on the whole, more...
...Towns' public saloons. As early as Oxford, Jenkins found himself at odds with the woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian Scandal (see BOOKS), about the ruination of Liberal Sir Charles Dilke. "I regard writing as the only real work," Jenkins once said, and he does it well enough for the Economist to have...
...frame of the coal board's chairman, Baron Robens of Woldingham, who is variously known to Britons as "Lord Coal" and "honest" Alf." After serving on Manchester's city council and running a teddy-bear-manufacturing business, Lancashireman Robens won a seat in Parliament, at 40 became Clement Attlee's Minister of Labor. In 1961 a Conservative government asked him to take over the red-inked coal board, which had become a music-hall joke. Robens moved into the board's office behind Buckingham Palace, mounted a housewives' coal-buying campaign, and announced...