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Hollywood called in the early 1940s, and Horne answered, eventually winding up in the office of MGM's Louis B. Mayer. She made it clear to him that she did not want to play maids, the usual role for black women then, but no one on the Culver City lot could think of any other part for a beautiful and talented woman with Horne's pigmentation. They finally decided that she was light enough to pass for a Latin. Horne insisted that she was dark enough to be what she was, a black. Perplexed, the studio bosses...
Many prominent political, literary and academic figures are on the 83-person committee organizing the scholarship. They include: Marguerite S. Robinson '56, dean of students at Tufts University: John C. Culver '54, former senator from lowa: and Stephen Stamas '53, vice-president of Exxon...
...early 1970s the family switched to Culver City Swim Club and continued to excel. After a couple of years, Kiki, who was almost ready for Palisades High School, decided to switch sports...
...unrelenting commitment, a "right to life" movement that has become perhaps the most powerful single-issue force in American politics. It helped secure Ronald Reagan the Republican presidential nomination last year and contributed to the defeat of such pro-choice Senators as Birch Bayh of Indiana and John Culver of Iowa. Every Jan. 22, on the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the antiabortion forces march on Washington, sending a red rose-the symbol of their cause-to each member of Congress. Nellie Gray, organizer of this March for Life, warns that legislators who vote for abortion "will be held accountable...
Meanwhile, cries for a more stringent federal gun control policy--which Reagan continues to oppose--came from all over the country. "This is horrendous," former Sen. John Culver '54, who is now at the Kennedy School of Government, said Monday, adding. "No one is safe...