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Recent coaching shifts have brought Cleo O'Donnell, captain of the 1946 football team, back to Cambridge as varsity basketball coach at M.I.T. and have sent a Princeton crow coach to Yale...
...Look at the Record. A Democratic line was also shaping up, but until there were military victories to crow over, it was curiously defensive. It consisted in arguing that the records of Republicans on defense appropriations, foreign programs, Korean aid would not bear very close scrutiny: the Democrats might not have done enough, but they might have done more had not the Republicans so often opposed what the Democrats...
This week, in one of its newsiest Opinion Mondays, the Supreme Court: ¶ Outlawed the Jim Crow segregation of Negroes in railroad dining cars on interstate trips. ¶ Ordered the University of Texas to admit Heman Sweatt, Negro, to its all-white law school, on the ground that the Negro law school that Texas had set up was not the equivalent of Texas' law school for whites...
...pavilion's better half was devoted to John Marin, a wry, shy old crow of a man who paints nature as knowingly as Winslow Homer and with even greater freedom (TIME, Jan. 9). As Washington's Duncan Phillips put it in the exhibition catalogue, Marin "is one of the most gifted and important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine...
...record at U.C.L.A., his Army service, his difficulties at finding a job. Leaving home and the college sweetheart (Ruby Dee) he is later to marry, he gets on a Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder and base runner; he must turn the other cheek to the inevitable abuse...