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...spent Dec. 7, 1941, arranging an abortion for his son's girl friend, he keeps drifting back to the days when he and his "bunkies" whipped the "Dago" in Cuba. But not before he overcame his cowardice in a rib ald send-up of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. It is a ripe ad dition to the sanitized exuberance dished out by T.R. in The Rough Riders...
...many college presidents are like Charles G. Hurst Jr.-yet. He is a high school dropout who was a husband and father at 15. He has been a boxer, ditch digger, janitor, foundry hand and crane operator, and has served four months and 14 days in a North Carolina jail for being caught with bootleg liquor. Now 43, he delivers evangelistic speeches to his student body, garbed in dashikis, while from a gold chain around his neck hangs a carved African-style tiki in the form of a clenched fist...
Chicago was getting more than that -and needed it. When Hurst arrived at the junior college then called Crane, the student body, once white, had become mostly black. But the teachers were still 75% white, and they were somehow unable to make even remedial programs work: 80% of the students dropped out before finishing one semester. In the face of rising student hostility, the college provided an armed guard and bus to take faculty members the 400 yards from the front door to the parking...
Redesigning Things. The college was originally named for Richard T. Crane, a white manufacturer of plumbing equipment, which prompted Hurst to declare the decrepit school he took over "an educational cesspool." After an eight-month battle with the board of the Chicago City Colleges, Hurst got Crane renamed for Malcolm X, raised the green, red and black flag of black liberation next to the U.S. and Illinois flags, and won the trust of Chicago's black radicals. Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton had been a student the semester before he was killed in a police shootout. This year, Hurst...
...Chase Manhattan Bank promotion features an avuncular, sneaker-shod hippo working a computer. An ad for Irving Trust's computer service shows a wood penguin holding a high silk hat. The message: "Lease or Buy-Which suits you best?" Then there is the crane standing on one foot in an ad for Boeing Computer Service, which asks: "Looking for stability in computer services?" In an ad for CNA Insurance, a purple piglike monster with yellow wings and an orange cockscomb gobbles up dollars. The headline: "The Money Muncher. Starve it." Computer Communication's ads feature another cash-chewing...