Word: freeman
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Besides men who ordinarily would not run because of vocation, the CCA has helped qualified politicians. Among this group is Charles A. Freeman, past president of the Cambridge Colored Civic Association who as a city council candidate was defeated in 1949. This year, Freeman, an extremely well-qualified candidate, does not have enough money of his own to wage a successful campaign and the CCA has put up the necessary funds to allow Freeman to run. Then too, there is Crane himself, a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Amory calls him the "best qualified mayor in the United...
GEORGE WASHINGTON (Vols. Ill & IV, 1,336 pp.)-Douglas Southall Freeman -Scribner...
This is the point at which Pulitzer Prizewinner Douglas Southall Freeman (R. E. Lee, Lee's Lieutenants) picks up Vol. Ill of his definitive biography. Like Freeman's first two volumes, it contains more facts about Washington than anyone has ever squeezed between boards before, and more than most readers are likely to digest. Originally planned for six volumes, the work has swollen to eight. Biographer Freeman expects to finish in 1954, ten years after he began...
Keeping his camera at a respectful distance, Freeman has photographed Washington's 16 years of peace in such overwhelming and sometimes indiscriminate detail that Vol. Ill often makes sluggish reading. But when he plunges into the war in Vol. IV, and takes Washington through the winter at Valley Forge, he writes with steam and fire. A bit pedestrian as a portraitist of character, Freeman handles military matters with rousing zest and precision...
Open Mind. In Beaumont, Texas, after registering at Lamar State College, Freeman Smith inquired: "Where do I sign up for classes in humilities...