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Little addressed an audience of over 600 at Northeastern University last night after two other former prisoners, Akil, a member of the Attica Now Collective, and Sekou Lumpen, a member of the Atmore-Holman Defense Fund. The event was sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild...
...Eugene O'Neill's, Deeter abandoned a career on Broadway in 1923 and set up the Hedgerow Theater in a vacant mill. Before Deeter retired as its director in 1956, Hedgerow had established itself as a training ground for such future stars as Van Heflin, Libby Holman and Richard Basehart...
Died. Libby Holman, 65, tragedy-plagued torch singer of the 1920s and 30s; in Stamford, Conn. Beauty and an earthy voice propelled her to stardom on Broadway, where she is best remembered for her bluesy renditions of such songs as Body and Soul and Moanin' Low. In 1931 she married Tobacco Heir Zachary Smith Reynolds, who was mysteriously shot to death the following year. Libby was indicted, along with one of Reynolds' friends, but murder charges were dropped for lack of evidence. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an apparent overdose of sleeping pills...
...Benjamin Holman, black head of the Justice Department's community-relations service, rejects integration as "unrealistic and unwise" because most whites cannot accept it. Holman's goal, he says, "is not some sort of vague, illusory melting pot in which we're all mixed like salt and pepper, but a multiracial society in which we have black neighborhoods and black communities and still live as one nation." While some educators argue that integrated schools cut down hostility between black and white children, two Menninger Foundation researchers found in studying one high school that desegregation "sometimes leads...
...studio at-homes, but those who came to scoff his scones did not remain to pay for his pictures. Briefly he joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. But how could his neat landscapes compete with the bogus medievalism of Burne-Jones' Sir Galahad or the religiosity of Holman Hunt's The Light of the World, in which a mournful schoolmaster wearing a mortarboard of thorns drew devout thousands to the doors of British and U.S. museums...