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Episcopal Father C. Edward Crowther, who got his rookie training in civil rights by picketing against racial discrimination in fraternities at U.C.L.A. , is now battling in the big league: South Africa. Two years ago in Los Angeles, Crowther, an English-born U.S. citizen, was just a campus chaplain, but a fast rise in the Anglican hierarchy has made him Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and, at 36, the church's youngest bishop. His office in Kimberley has a picture of Martin Luther King on the wall, but Crowther has not until now been belligerent about apartheid...
What drove Bishop Crowther into open battle was the lot of 1,000 Bantus from a native community called Holpan near Kimberley. Last month they were thrown out of their shanties and moved by government trucks to a barren waste in the Mamuthla Reserve, 25 miles to the north. Their offense was refusal to move into new government housing, where the rent of $5.60 a month was a third, the Bantus claimed, of what they could hope to earn. Visiting the compound, Bishop Crowther found most of the natives without food; some had not eaten in four days...
...weeks ago, Bosley Crowther called The Eleanor Roosevelt Story the best documentary ever made. For perhaps the first time in his professional life, Mr. Crowther is right...
...World War II, M.O.T. was being shown regularly in nearly 10,000 theaters in the U.S., 5,000 abroad. Its passing from the cinema scene in 1951 was widely lamented in the world's press. New York Times Critic Bosley Crowther found it "a shade ironic that, in these critical times, the film most watchful of the onward march of history should itself be compelled to march off." The popular series, he said (correctly), "bows to screen economics...
...York Times. The very words have a lilt, not unlike clanging ashcans tossed from a refuse truck. What a treasure chest: James Reston, intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...