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...James B. Fisk (Junior Fellow '36-38, A.M. Hon. '47), of Basking Ridge, N.J., President of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Nathaneal V. Davis '38, of Montreal, President and Director of Aluminum Limited...
...JOAN FISK Brooklyn...
...Citizen Hearst (Scribner; $7.50), Biographer William Andrew (Jim Fisk, Sickles the Incredible) Swanberg swings lustily into the latest effort to explain and understand that extraordinary man. It is an all but impossible task, and Swanberg, who even enlisted the service of a psychiatrist in his attempt to solve the Hearstian enigma, does not succeed. What he has produced is a fascinating, exhaustive and meticulously impartial study of a man whose true meaning eluded all who knew...
Diane Nash, 22, has earned combat stripes in the Negro protest movement: two arrests for taking part in sit-ins. Born on Chicago's South Side, she studied at Washington's Howard University between secretarial jobs, transferred to Fisk University in Nashville in 1959 ("I wanted to come South to see what it was really like"). There she spent more time working toward integration than for her degree, last February she dropped out of school to serve as fulltime coordinating secretary of the well-planned, successful Nashville student sit-in movement (TIME, May 23, 1960), joined the Freedom...
Nashville calls itself the "Athens of the South." It has twelve universities and colleges, including Vanderbilt ("the Princeton of the South") and Fisk University ("the Ivy League of Southern Negro colleges"). It has Protestant churches of all sorts and sects, and it has . more than its share of social-and racial-relations groups, led by the Nashville Community Relations Conference, an organization of some 400 citizens dedicated to "equal justice under the law, and a true brotherhood of man." If Nashville's white merchants remain segregationists at heart, they have at least learned to become pocketbook integrationists...