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...victory for civil rights came 338 years, to the week, after the first shipment of Negro slaves to the British colonies landed at Jamestown...
After reading a United Press story that described an ax-wielding husband killer as an "attractive mother of three," News Editor Jim Fox of the Jamestown (N.Y.) Sun (circ. 11,444) checked the U.P.'s picture of the woman. "She looks," Editor Fox protested to the U.P. Reporter last week, "like five miles of bad road." Farther down the road, Jim Fox reported that he then compared other wire-service descriptions of women with their pictures and "finally worked out U.P.'s 'system.' " Fox's U.P. glamour glossary...
...more 'Semitic' a Catholic realizes himself to be. For he comes to know how intimately his roots are laced with those of the Jew." The U.S. Protestant, on the other hand, does not share the same long-range perspective. "Everything that took place, religiously speaking, before Jamestown, the Mayflower, William Penn or Mary Baker Eddy, appears to him to be something which happened to 'foreigners...
Professor Thompson, chairman of the University Music Department, composed this work for the 1957 Jamestown Festival commemorating the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia...
...would scud southward to New York harbor for the summer, there to become a tourist attraction (adults: 90? a head) for local investors. Though on the whole the voyage was duly applauded along the northeast coast, there were unstilled rumblings from the South. Celebrators of Virginia's great Jamestown festival, annoyed that Mayflower II had arrived just in time to steal the festival's thunderous publicity occasioned by an international naval review of 114 vessels from the U.S. and 17 foreign lands, charged trickery on the high seas. Huffed a Jamestown publicist: "It's just as though...