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...campaigning for a municipal election was getting in high gear, the Rev. Theodore Gibson, president of the Miami N.A.A.C.P., called on City Manager Ira Willard with a plea that Miami's sternly segregated recreational facilities be opened to Negroes. To the Rev. Gibson's surprise, South Carolinian Willard swiveled in his chair and tossed the question to City Attorney William L. Pallot. The Supreme Court, said Pallot. has made the issue clear-a city has no right to bar Negroes from public facilities. At City Manager Willard's direction, word immediately went out to recreation workers that...
MUSCLE BEACH (236 pp.)-Ira Wallach-Little, Brown...
Such early dancing-school training suggests that Shirley was shoved toward the stage by ambitious parents. Not so. Her mother, Canadian-born Kathryn MacLean Beaty, was a dabbler in amateur theatricals, and her father, Ira O. Beaty, a scholarly Virginian, was a part-time musician, but the dancing lessons had a practical explanation: Shirley had weak ankles...
...Chalk should know. He has run up a $10 million-plus fortune by making every dollar turn over many times-through borrowing. Son of a Russian immigrant shopkeeper, Chalk grew up in The Bronx (his neighbors were George and Ira Gershwin, and he fielded sandlot grounders batted by Lou Gehrig), rode the subways to New York University Law School ('31). With loans and his skimpy earnings as a young attorney, he bought Bronx apartments at Depression prices, later cashed in on World War II's real estate boom. Typical Chalk deal: in 1942 he bought the 16-story...
...large extent upon its opposition. Yale lost its famous Olympic stern pair through graduation, and several other key men through injuries, but they too have a squad with a depth which could easily turn out a powerful varsity boat. On last year's performance both Cornell, which swept the IRA regatta on Lake Cayuga last June, and Pennsylvania must be rated as strong rivals...