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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Different Colors. Despite great improvement in the past ten years, and such "laudable exceptions" as the Chattanooga Times and the Richmond Times Dispatch, many Southern newspapers still follow a "double standard" in news. Says Race in the News: "Negroes . . . are almost always identified by race; whites . . . are not . . . Hardly ever does 'Mr.,' 'Miss,' or 'Mrs.' precede the name of a Negro in the regular news columns . . . To refer to the widow of a lynched Negro as 'the Mallard woman' . . . is to deny her even the elemental dignity of grief . . . The Negro...
...Waltz King expects to take TV in his stride because "it is the most satisfying medium of production ever known. It puts a premium on sincerity and honesty." To achieve "sincerity," he will rely more on pantomimes for his oldtime songs than on vocalists ("After all, everybody knows the lyrics"). There will also be a good deal of folksy comment from the maestro ("Doggone, here I am jabbering away like . . . like . . . well, a magpie...
Gingerly, the two archeologists lifted the turban off. Beneath it, stuffed into the bundle like wash into a laundry bag, were some of the gaudiest garments, shirts, kilts and shawls, ever worn by man. Most of them were made of embroidery so delicate that the tiny stitches covering all the cloth looked like meshes of the finest weaving. Across them pranced birds and wildcats in reds, pinks, greens and yellows almost as fresh and brilliant as when they came from the dye vats. From their edges dripped cataracts of brightly colored fringe; the shirts had masses of fringe instead...
Long Cloth. Out of the inexhaustible bundle came a striped cloth 12 ft wide and 87 ft. long. Bird believes that this is the biggest cloth ever woven by pre-machine methods. He estimates that the weavers must have walked 77 miles while laying out the warp threads...
Obsessively shy, Heineman has always wrapped his affairs in such obscurity that few but the world's top bankers have ever heard of him. When in Manhattan, he lives in a nine-room apartment in a quietly elegant midtown hotel. Born in North Carolina, Heineman went to Europe at 16 and stayed there almost half a century building electric tramways and power plants (including Ebro) in a dozen countries, with U.S., British, Belgian, Swiss and French capital...