Word: jr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response: the biggest tennis club in the U.S.'s largest Negro community, the world's biggest Jewish community, excludes both Negroes and Jews. What's more, Burglund told Bunche, the admission of Ralph Jr. would mean the resignation of at least 200 of the club's members. "Neither I nor my son regards it as a hardship or a humiliation," said Dr. Bunche. "It is a discredit to the club itself. If I were younger, I think...
...several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney had never heard of Mexico's Bob White, but, as one Whitney aide explains, "nearly everyone we spoke to mentioned his name; so we got in touch with him." Asked for an opinion. Chicago's Marshall Field Jr.-for whose Sun-Times White had served as a part-time consultant (1956-58)-offered a blue-chip recommendation. Five weeks ago White flew to London, met Ambassador Whitney. Says Horace Greeley's successor: "I told him, 'Come East, young man,' and, fortunately, he has decided...
Rehearsals are already well under way for the Theatre's second production, Shakespeare's Macbeth, which will open on July 30 with Jason Robards, Jr. in the title role and Siobhan McKenna as his Lady...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...
...Great Impostor, by Robert Crichton. The incredible biography of multi-phrenic Fred Demara Jr., who has been a Navy surgeon, teacher, prison warden, and a member of half a dozen religious orders...