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...accustomed to the Negro movement depending both for sustenance and initiative upon the good will of the white community; the development of the Negro institutions and points of strength could not be communicated on their own merits. The building of such institutions has been wrongly confused, since Plessy vs Ferguson, with "perpetuating segregation...
...Bill Ferguson will read his poetry at the fourth weekly Advocate Poetry Informal at 8 p.m. tonight in the Straus Common Room, C-entry...
With this entree, Kazin met most of the characters whose portraits make up the rest of the book. Some of the names Kazin discusses are still familiar--Mary McCarthy, Malcolm Cowley, William Saroyan, and James T. Farrell; others, like those of V.F.Calverton, editor of the Marxist Modern Monthly. Otis Ferguson, the ex-sailor who worked on the New Republic, and Francis Corcoran, a pietistic Catholic who also managed to be a Communist, mean nothing to people who can hardly remember the early '50's. But all were part of the literary-political world of Alfred Kazin and all were part...
...Chicago Cubs lineup includes three genuine major leaguers to two for the New York Mets. On the mound, Leo Durocher is going with an exciting crop of unproven youngsters like Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman, Dick Nye, and Ray Culp. Wes Westrum is counting on a stale harvest of sure-fire hard-luck losers: Jack Fisher, Don Cardwell, Bob Shaw, and Ralph Terry...
...consider 23-year-old Canadian semi-pros who are lured to America solely for their hockey ability as representatives of the Ivy League. Cornell's style of play, epitomized in the final by all-star defenseman Harry Orr's major penalty for spearing and all-star forward Doug Ferguson's ejection from the game for fighting, is just as alien to Ivy ideals as the players' origins. Harkness wanted a national title and he got it. I hope Harvard will never permit a coach to get one in the same...