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...self-made success - or colossal failure, depending on your indulgence for strange movies - Oscar Micheaux was born in Metropolis, Ill., in 1884. After various menial jobs he followed Horace Greeley's advice, went West and became a South Dakota homesteader. He lived among whites and, it is said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth...
DIED. ELLIS JONES, 80, University of Tulsa and NFL football player with one arm; of a broken neck sustained in a fall at home; in Greeley, Colo. One of the athletes deferred from service who filled teams while others fought in World War II, he played in two Sugar Bowls...
...need to look at that evil face, big and bold on the cover of your magazine," wrote an angry woman. A California critic wondered, "Why, with the thousands of images of heroism and patriotism available at this time, did you choose him for your cover?" A Greeley, Colo., reader railed, "How dare you dignify this monstrous creature! Isn't it enough that we have to hear his name 50 times a day?" But a Pennsylvanian chose to indulge in some gallows humor: "Darts should have been included with your picture of the 'target...
...working template of American experience and, on the whole, useful. The young man obeys Horace Greeley and goes West; in California, he runs out of America. It is the culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery - a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
...Dale Earnhardt made NASCAR what it is, and his death is the reason I have cried myself to sleep every night since Feb. 18." JANEY HANSEN Greeley, Colo...