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...baseball player after Uncle Robbie's happy heart. In spring training at Daytona Beach. Fla. in 1916. Casey helped talk the Dodger manager into trying to catch a baseball dropped from one of those new-fangled flying machines. Robbie waited confidently on the beach, mitt poised, unaware that Casey had substituted a grapefruit for the ball...
...Daytona Beach...
...found herself the only Negro in a sea of strangers. "White people's eyes pierced me," said she. "Some of them were kind eyes; others would like to be but were still afraid." After graduation she taught in Georgia, married a fellow schoolteacher, Albert Bethune, moved on to Daytona Beach...
...plans for a school of her own. To raise money, she baked sweet potato pies and sold them from door to door. She peddled fried fish, sang in local hotels. She borrowed a shack, collected boxes for furniture, squeezed elderberries for ink. used charcoal slivers for pencils. When the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute opened, its student body was five girls...
Died. Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, 79. co-founder and president-emeritus of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach. Fla.; of a heart attack; in Daytona Beach (see EDUCATION...