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Boynton kept right on fighting the case. He appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court-where lawyers supplied by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attempted to turn the Boynton case into a legal landmark in the struggle against Jim Crow. Arguing on broad constitutional grounds, Boynton's lawyers claimed that he had been deprived of his rights under the U.S. Constitution's equal protection, due process and commerce clauses...
...ceremony more feather-filled than a pillow fight, Eleanor Roosevelt, 76, became an honorary Indian six times over in Beverly Hills, Calif. Presented with the traditional caparisons of his tribe by Chief Wah-Nee-Ota of the Creeks, Mrs. Roosevelt was also duly adopted as a member of the Crow, Seminole, Navaho, Apache and Mohawk tribes. The occasion, according to the Indians, was originally inspired by their gratitude to F.D.R., who during a 1938 drought helped them retrieve a sacred beaded thunderbird from the Smithsonian Institution, where it had been gathering dust and making no rain...
...volunteers. "We're going to help them. We might have to run a kind of Berlin airlift during the next week or two." The slowly growing number of white pupils at Frantz was still another evidence that the power of the mob was ebbing. In New Orleans, Jim Crow education was dying hard-but did seem to be dying surely...
...Schools of Tomorrow," Sept. 12. We are honored to be mistaken for Richard J. Neutra. I am sure he would have done Crow Island School better, but I believe that it was, in fact, designed by Perkins, Wheeler and Will, with Eliel and Eero Saarinen. Please advise before you put our babies out for adoption...
Meryman's office now looks like a wildlife refuge. A red fox poses hungrily on a bookcase. A black crow, wings outstretched, sits on a windowsill. Brightly colored small birds perch on pencil tops, and a brown bat swings malevolently from the ceiling, suspended by a nearly invisible wire. All look amazingly lifelike, preserved by Meryman's "freeze-dry" process and apparently able to stay in good condition indefinitely. The fox was shot by Meryman when it invaded his hen house. "He accounted for 27 hens," says Meryman, "before I freeze-dried him." The other specimens were collected...