Word: fiske
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started selling a strange new item: "Dusty Bucks" -white shoes that had been specially treated to look ever so slightly worn and ever so slightly dirty. ¶ Within a few days of each other, Fisk and Howard Universities became the first and second Negro universities to install chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. ¶ Appointment of the Week: Courtney Craig Smith, 36, to succeed John W. Nason (now head of the Foreign Policy Association) as ninth president of Swarthmore College. A graduate of Harvard. Smith studied 17th century...
...dusky Aïda was the chance of a lifetime. The daughter of a bricklayer who worked his way up to manager of a contracting company, Lenora made up her mind at 17 to be a singer. With her father backing her to the limit, she went to Tennessee's Fisk University, then to Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Three years ago she won a traveling scholarship to Europe. She had mastered the leads in Butterfly...
That was one thing Harvey E. Clark Jr. didn't know. Clark, a Negro, graduate (A.B.) of Fisk University and a World War II sergeant, was sick of living in a tiny apartment on Chicago's South Side, with his two kids sleeping in the windowless hallway. He rented an apartment in Cicero.* But when he tried to move his family in last month, two Cicero cops refused to let the Clarks unload their furniture because they had no "permit." Beefy Police Chief Erwin Konovsky arrived, ordered the Clarks to leave town. The real-estate agent who rented...
Negro College Choirs (Sun. 10:30 a.m., ABC). Choristers from Fisk University...
...Henry Fisk Award...