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Commenting on the fact that Crocker had posted a telegram from the NAACP as an explanation to patrons of the controversial film's cancellation, NAACP president Lionel Lindsay said, "I don't know who engineered this telegram, but we had no knowledge of Friday's showing." Lindsay is sending a letter criticizing Crocker's action to Associate Dean Robert B. Watson...
...Benjamin Crocker, Director of the Boston Film Society insisted last night that "Negro groups had put the pressure on" to cancel last Friday's showing of Birth of a Nation. His charge was denied by the president of the Boston National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Crocker last year lost his permit to show films at the Museum of Modern Art because he had not used his profits for "educational purposes." The Museum requires this of all its exhibitors...
Watson said he "didn't like the looks of the last-minute substitution," and "raised a strong objection to it" with David W. Bailey '34, secretary to the Corporation. According to Watson, Bailey called Benjamin Crocker, Boston Film's director, and convinced him to substitute another film for "Birth of a Nation" in tonight's program...
Previewing the 1952 campaign, which will officially begin Monday, freshman solicitors Dickie Lee Hebert (Miss Radcliffe), Nancy Leet, Sarah Crocker, and Toni Traugott netted 43 pints of blood the first day and 66 pints on the second night during dinner meals at the Freshman Union...