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...Crow law was refined last week in Natal, South Africa. Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
When competent musicians are fired for playing two sour notes, there is no decent reason why a female vocalist should get by with singing like a crow. There are plenty of other reasons, but they count for little on a record. Every musician in the late Glenn Miller's band was expert, yet the firing rate was tremendous. Marion Hutton couldn't hit a note with a sledge-hammer, yet she sang with Miller for over four years. Few will deny that Marion was a highly desirable little morsel. She had, moreover, a prodigious personality that carried her over long...
...ship. Captain Mulzac not only promised that he would be able to get qualified Negro officers to serve under him but said that he knew white as well as Negro crewmen willing to serve under him-for the Booker T. is not to be a Jim Crow ship...
...arrival of U.S. troops and base-building dollars brought an inflationary spiral and a minor social revolution. In Jamaica, where Jim Crow was unknown before, some soldiers and civilian base workers tried to order "niggers" out of clubs and bars they had been frequenting for years. Others, failing to recognize the Caribbean caste system, which separates mulattoes from blacks and then grades the mulattoes socially according to the shades of their skins, fraternized with "the wrong people." At the same time the U.S. "invasion" raised hopes that a new deal in West Indian political and economic life would spring from...
...cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing of a saw, the squealing of a hog "who is extremely weak," the "cracking" of a crow, the howling of a dog, the squalling of a cat, "and what would grace the concert yet more, would be the rubbing of a wet finger upon the window glass...