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DIED. Duncan Renaldo, 76, "the Cisco Kid" of twelve feature films and 156 television episodes in the 1950s; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After working his way up from studio janitor to leading roles in 1929 and 1931 in The Bridge of San Luis Key and Trader Horn, the Rumanian-born Renaldo was convicted of perjury for falsifying his birthplace to qualify for a U.S. passport; he served 18 months in prison, then was pardoned by President Franklin Roosevelt. Renaldo was proud of his Cisco series, in which he played an Old West Don Quixote to the late Leo Carrillo...
...WILL FLY in form Denver in a couple of weeks and the cab driver will ask you where you're going to school and overcharge you and the janitor in the basement of Matthews will look down a list of names and hand you a key. Your roommate may beat you to the single and your proctor may have very little of import to say but you'll have your very own piece of Harvard real estate and your own little corner of the Yard...
...Ukraine, had wanted to join his relatives in the U.S. so much, and for so long, that he petitioned Moscow 18 times for permission to emigrate. Finally last December approval came, and Polovchak, 42, brought his wife Anna and their three children to Chicago. He worked as a factory janitor, she as a cleaner in a hospital. But neither formed close ties with the Windy City's large community of Ukrainians, many of whom were World War II refugees, and Michael soon began to complain: Chicago was too noisy, the air polluted, the weather bad, the food contaminated...
Being a Black woman at Harvard compounded her sense of isolation. The first day she was here Wilkerson encountered the type of racist attitudes that in Shaker Heights "were kept quiet," While she waited outside the janitor's room to get the keys to her freshman dorm, another newly arrived freshman asked her if she was the janitor's assistant. "I was shocked--I expected race not to be an issue here," she says, adding that she quickly realized that although Harvard students were bright many "brought their racism with them...
...Lowell McGee reported that he "ran upstairs and asked the PBH janitor to call the police" only after dodging a man who entered the building with John Francis and who attempted to block McGee's forward progress. The Crimson neglected to mention this latter incident...