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...campaign must be shortened. The first contest now is the Iowa caucus in mid-January, but the candidates have to start raising money long before that in order to get federal matching funds. One remedy-urged by former L.B.J. Aide Douglass Cater in a study for the Aspen Institute-would be to ban use of federal funds before the spring of an election year...
DIED. Adele Astaire Douglass, 83, Fred Astaire's elegant older sister and original dancing partner; after a stroke; in Scottsdale, Ariz. Born Adele Austerlitz in Nebraska, she began dancing in vaudeville shows with her brother when she was nine and he seven. Their dazzling footwork and comic flair made them the hit of London and Broadway musical theater in shows that included the Gershwins' Lady, Be Good (1924) and Funny Face (1927). In 1932, amid much publicity, Adele married Lord Charles Cavendish, trading her thriving career for life as a British society woman. Three years after his death...
...realize that the plight of Black players in recent decades has been worse than it was several generations ago. Several past notable violinists include Jose White (1833-1920), who was a concerto soloist with the New York Philharmonic more than once in the 1870s; Joseph Douglass (1869-1935), grandson of the legendary Frederick Douglass and the first Black violinist to tour the United States as a recitalist; and Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960), who was active as a composer in addition to his concertizing...
...power; Rev. Barry Lynn, the cleancut ministerial force behind the Coalition Against Registration and the Draft (CARD) holding up his three-year old daughter so the crowd can see her "Heck No, I Won't Go" t-shirt; Rev. Ben Chavis, joining admiration for past leaders from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, with a salute to the "people of Zimbabwe whom we must all salute," and a call for more social spending programs...
...professor, who in 1976 became the first black to be appointed consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress; of a heart attack; in Ann Arbor, Mich. Hayden's work evoked a heroic sense of the black American past, whether his subject was a powerful personality like Frederick Douglass, the Motor City ghetto of his youth or such physical relics of slavery as the old factory he describes in his 1979 volume American Journal: "[In] the tidy ruins of a sugar mill./ More than cane was crushed. But I am tired today of history, its patina'd cliches...