Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Purlie Victorious (by Ossie Davis) peoples a Broadway stage with Negro characters that the N.A.A.C.P. has long claimed do not exist. Here is a cottonpicking Uncle Tom (Godfrey M. Cambridge) who hymns the supposedly subservient spirituals and cringes, hat in hand, before the white man ("You dah boss, Boss"). Here...
The curse is almost taken off these caricatures by Director Howard Da Silva, who treats the entire play as an animated cartoon strip. Actor-Playwright Davis stirs up intermittent fun with a flamboyantly well-paced performance and some sharp wisecracks, e.g., "You are a disgrace to the Negro profession." The...
James B. Fisk (Junior Fellow '36-38, A.M. Hon. '47), of Basking Ridge, N.J., President of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Nathaneal V. Davis '38, of Montreal, President and Director of Aluminum Limited.
This week in the A.M.A. Journal, a team of Detroit and Chicago researchers, headed by Parke, Davis Virologist Wilton A. Rightsel announced that viruses capable of producing hepatitis in man had been isolated. By carefully regulating temperature, alkalinity and acidity, the researchers had managed to isolate several strains of virus...
Another team of researchers, headed by Northwestern University's Dr. Joseph Boggs, has used some of the Parke, Davis viruses to inject into prisoner-volunteers at Illinois State Penitentiary and produce a form of hepatitis.