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...GEORGE FRAZIER...
...George Frazier is everything you say he is (and so, I might add, is the "dreary" Boston newspaper situation). However, unless St. George is also a schizophrenic, how could he call Mickey Mantle an "unfrocked fink"? In one of his July columns, Mr. Frazier wrote: "Mantle has such grit and gallantry as to suffuse the summery sarabands of baseball with so singular a splendor." The column ends with: "I would that my sons grow up to have the frankincense and myrrh of such magic." Please explain...
...Frazier explains, "A fink unfrocked is a fink no more. Mickey Mantle acquired class after he came up to the majors. He was surly when he started, but he has grown in stature to where he's a gracious man-and he plays a graceful game...
...Black Muslims, said Epps, should go back to the seventeenth century to take account of a "continuity of the Negro personality" that has barely been recognised. Almost all discussions of American Negro progress focus on the situation of an upper-middle class marked out by E. Franklin Frazier in his book "The Black Bourgeoisie" as bearers of the Negro culture. But the genesis of the Black Muslims, according to Epps, is in the other segment of the community, and it is only because this has not been studied that we can be surprised at the growth of the Muslim movement...
Only George Frazier...