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...spindly, sharp-beaked crow of a man who spends his winters near Rutherford, N.J., where he was born, Marin has always loved solitude and the sea. His letters to his friend and sponsor, the late great photographer Alfred Stieglitz, were often signed "The Ancient Marin-er." They spoke most of the weather, and mentioned fishing, berrying and hunting as often as art. One such letter, written five years ago, hints at the bigness and joy that the old man still puts in his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Ancient Mariner | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

Last week in East St. Louis, III. (pop. 75,000), Jim Crow lost another tattered feather. The school board ordered an end to the practice (also followed by many smaller towns in southern Illinois) of segregating Negro children in the public schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Feather from Jim Crow | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...This crow of student tutors, the majority of whom are freshmen, works through 31 social service agencies in the Greater Boston area. According to Committee chairman Anthony G. Oettinger '51 most of the 335 tutees currently enrolled in the program are teenagers who are having trouble with the usual high school fare of Algebra, English, and languages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 127 Brooks House Men Act As Tutors to School Boys | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...United Negro College Fund was on the Combined Charity list last year, and had attracted some student protest because it favored the segregation of Negroes. "It is apparent," said yesterday's YPH statement, "that the Council purposely changed the name of the Jim Crow weed" this year to deceive students...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: YPH Accuses Charity Drive Of Fraud, Then Backs Down | 12/7/1949 | See Source »

...full camera crow will be working with 25 undergraduate "extras" who, in the movie, help direct an assistant district attorney and a police sergeant to the University's Department of Legal Medicine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Shoots Crime Movie in Yard Today | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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