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Italy gave the world Pagliacci, the story of a man who laughs even in the face of tragedy. But the sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them...
...commanding officer of the WAG, Mrs. Hobby tolerated no Jim Crow in training the first class of WAC officers. In fact it was actually through this laudable policy that she becomes the first of the "top brass" to integrate by order...
...Turning from defense of Old Glory to defense of Jim Crow, the Daughters discovered their lease to a Washington auditorium, Constitution Hall. DAR rule has taught many Negroes that the Hall is an exclusive place. Two time loser Hazel Scott, colored wife of Representative Powell, found that the Daughters didn't like her kind of singing. While few negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister...
...local Boston committee of Americans for South African Resistance (AFSAR). In many ways it aids the large numbers of African men and women who are trying to achieve freedom not by a bitter racial war, but through an organized campaign of nonviolent resistance against South African Jim Crow laws...
Sure, the Giants, Dodgers, Cubs, and Pirates have had good attendance despite losing seasons in the record past. But that hardly gives the inhabitants of New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and Pittsburgh the right to crow about civic virtue and other such fairy tales...