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...head of the organization of more than 100,000 alumni will begin Commencement Day, June 16. He is also a director of the Boston Metropolitan Chapter, American Red Cross, and vice-president of the Boy Scouts of America. In 1956 he will serve as chairman of the United Red Feather campaign in Metropolitan Boston...
...White Feather (Panoramic; 20th Century-Fox). "Never," scream the ads for this western, "has the screen dared so boldly to cross the boundary lines of color and intolerance!" Indeed, in this picture, only six months after the production code was broadened to admit the subject - and only 3,000 years or so after Solomon entertained the Queen of Sheba - a Hollywood studio has dared to take up the question of miscegenation. The subject has been filmed before, of course, notably in Pinky, the story of an affair between a white man and a Negro girl; but in White Feather...
...FLAMINGO FEATHER, by Laurens van der Post (341 pp.; Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture...
Four of this year's six recommended charities also appeared on last year's list. They are: Phillips Brooks House Association, World University Service, American Friends Service Committee, and National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. The other two charities, Red Feather and Salzburg Seminar, have both appeared on the card in previous years...
...recommended charities are all "student-oriented with the exception of Red Feather," according to Edward M. Strasser '56, the other co-chairman. Besides Red Feather, the list includes: Phillips Brooks House, the World University Service, the Salzburg Seminar, American Friends Service Committee, and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students...