Word: club
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's National Press Club announced an important event last week: it had scheduled a private screening of Home of the Brave, Hollywood's first picture attacking anti-Negro prejudice (TIME, May 9). The Press Club urged members to "see this production [because it] has something important to say on one of the most important problems of our day." What the invitation did not need to say was that only whites will be welcome; the Press Club bars Negroes from its club rooms and from membership...
...referee raised the new champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...
...victory against six de feats) was not the only Cleveland base-bailer who was having trouble. For a while it seemed that most of the other Indians, spectacular world champions of 1948, were turning up their toes. After they had lost 17 of their first 29 games, the club's publicity-minded president, Bill Veeck, announced that they were going to start the season all over again. There was a mock flag-raising ceremony and the gag snapped some life into the weary Indians. Then the club slumped again; its hitting was sadly...
Gill's "arts" included tombstone lettering, type designing, wood engraving, architecture and sculpture, which he preferred to call "stone carving." An exhibition of his woodcuts at Manhattan's Grolier Club last week told something of how Workman Gill had fused what he did with what he believed...
...Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship is Daniel B. Ray '49 of Brooklyn, N. Y. Second Marshal of his class, Ray graduated in February from Harvard College with highest honors in mathematics. While an undergraduate he was captain of the Varsity wrestling team, and a member of the Band and Glee Club. This Fellowship provides for European travel...