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...graduate of the Howard University Law School, Marshall captained the long-drawn legal battle for equal rights during his 23 years as counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. and its Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, winning all but three. His most famous victory was the court's 1954 ruling that segregated schools are in violation of the 14th Amendment. Named a federal circuit judge by John Kennedy, Marshall became the nation's first Negro Solicitor General two years...
...Rounds with Cassius. In his new post, Sullivan is required by tradition to deliver the principal sermon at St. Paul's services on six feast days of the church calendar-but in effect he be comes year-round pulpit spokesman for Anglicanism's most famous cathedral. Theologically and politically, Sullivan considers himself a middle-of-the-roader on the plausible ground that "the middle of the road means where the road is." A knowledgeable theologian, he feels that such avant-garde Anglicans as Bishop John A. T. Robinson (Honest to God) have gone too far and too fast...
...André Cocard, 49, and backed by Master Vintner Alexis Lichine. Kamagraphy faithfully produces 250 perfect copies of a painting on a special press, destroying the original in the process (color lithographs, by comparison, can be printed as many as 500 times, though first-quality press runs, signed by famous artists, are normally limited to between 30 and 250 prints). Each kamagraph looks as though the artist had painted it by hand. The French call this type of work a "multi-original," because the machine can work only with a painting painted for it on a specially treated canvas plaque...
...already had a successful 15-year career as performer, producer and director before he switched. He began as a radio announcer in Boston after graduation from Amherst ('35), soon moved to New York and network broadcasting. Seymour was the announcer who, in Orson Welles's famous 1938 radio drama, "War of the Worlds," terrified listeners with realistic bulletins on Martian invaders. Until World War II, he was the Danny who used to visit soap opera's Aunt Jenny to listen to her sudsy tales of goodness. He was also the producer and M.C. of We the People...
President Johnson, in his famous speech at Johns Hopkins, told us that our concern with China underlies our war in Vietnam, that "Over the war, and all Asia, is ... the deepening shadow of Communist China. The rulers of Hanoi are urged on by Peking....The contest in Vietnam is part of a wider pattern of aggressive purpose." The Administration constantly assures us that victory in Vietnam is needed to stop aggression, to stop the spread of Chinese power. How aggressive is China...