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...think I'd very much like to be a white boy just starting out in New York now.'' See Music, Crow...
...Mingus changed his mind, but the anger remains. It is shared in some degree by many Negro jazz musicians, and its major cause is anti-Negro prejudice in a field that Negroes regard as their own. Its result is the regrettable kind of reverse segregation known as Crow Jim-a feeling that the white man has no civil rights when it comes to jazz...
...Angels do have some cause to crow. Outfielder Leon Wagner leads the league in home runs (24) and RBIs (63), and Second Baseman Bill Moran (lifetime average: .242) is batting .295, has already knocked in more runs than in his three previous big-league seasons put together. But more important, the Angels have a special spirit-the camaraderie of the condemned. They call themselves "The Un-believables," and the more unbelievable, the better. "We always take the gamble," says Manager Rigney. "For instance, we have eleven pitchers, and we use them all -maybe all in one day. What the heck...
...House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist practices as opposed to polemics. Mrs. Julia Clarice Brown said that in 1947, when she joined the party in Cleveland, she found that she could not attend meetings of the cell in her Cleveland neighborhood. Said Mrs. Brown: "It was a Jim Crow club." Mrs. Brown had to make a three-mile trip to reach a Communist cell that was willing to mingle Negroes and whites. She quit the party, then rejoined as an undercover agent...
...head lady turn the right-hand gent Once around, once around. Bend to your honey and left hand round, Oh doodar day. The lady in the center and seven hands around, The old red hen, the old red hen, The hen flies out and the crow hops in Join your hands and around again With your right foot up and your left foot down, Keep with the music and shake her down...