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Died. Admiral Mark Edward Frederic Kerr, 79, whose career stretched from sailing ships to air power; in London. As a lad of 13 he was a midshipman aboard the 51-gun Newcastle, one of the last of the wooden frigates; in World War I he commanded the Adriatic squadron; in 1917 he persuaded the British Cabinet to establish the R.A.F...
Afternoon in Jersey. "Twilight came early. Lights were turned on as the train raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated, told the soldier across the aisle: 'Even the dump piles look swell.' The other soldier nodded: 'You ain't kiddin...
...running down the street of Boston's Allston section, a fine-looking kid of seven, perhaps eight. He was slashing with a stick, shouting "A Jew, a Jew, let's chase him!" The Jew, a lad of seven, perhaps eight, was scuttling off, hard as he could go. The Christian Science Monitor man, passing by, had seen it all before, this aggressiveness, this haunted fear, these ugly cramps in the fine faces of boys, born in Boston, raised in Boston, slugging it out in Boston. But neither the Monitor nor any other Boston paper had talked...
...third annual convention of Clarence Streit's Federal Union, Inc. Four years ago, the "Union Now" idea had seemed dreamy and outrageously advanced. Last week in Illinois, traditional hotbed of U.S. isolationism, the idea still seemed dreamy, but now it was almost behind the times. Mrs Sommer Lad come a long way in postwar thinking-but so had the rest...
...shut your eyes you would bet she was a man. But last week's audiences at Manhattan's Downtown Cafe Society lad their eyes open. They heard a sinewy young Negro woman play the solid, unpretentious, flesh-&-bone kind of jazz piano that is expected from such vigorous Negro masters as James P. Johnson. Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin. She was playing blues, stomps and boogie-woogie in the native Afro-American way-an art in which...