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Congressional chatter about cutting the $72 billion Federal budget has so far centered on defense, foreign-aid, schools and health-and-welfare expenditures. Last week in Houston one of the nation's biggest cotton men, Lamar Fleming Jr., board chairman of Anderson, Clayton...
...House boxing tournament will begin today at 3:30 in the boxing room of the I.A.B. with at least ten scheduled bouts, according to Henry N. Lamar, boxing coach...
During his first year at Phillips Exeter Academy, there were times when Nathaniel LaMar of Atlanta, Ga. thought he would never make it. The son of a widowed schoolteacher, he had gone to a Negro elementary school that left him unprepared for the stiff competition at Exeter. Had it not been for an organization called the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, he would never have bothered to apply for Exeter at all. But young LaMar gradually found his bearings. Eventually he i) was elected senior class poet at Exeter, 2) graduated summa cum laude from Harvard...
...when NSSFNS (pronounced "./Ves-jfeness") began ferreting out hidden talents such as LaMar's, Negroes accounted for only one-tenth of 1% of the students in interracial colleges. To three prominent New Yorkers-Dean Harry Carman of Columbia College, Mrs. Felice Schwartz, and Pastor James H. Robinson of the Church of the Master-this seemed not only an injustice but a waste of brainpower. Though too many boys and girls of all races were missing their chance for a full education because of poverty or bad training, the largest group affected was the Negroes. Deciding to go to the rescue...
...loss itself showed only that J.V. coaches Norm Shepherd and Henry Lamar will have to teach the squad more than just how to scrimmage the varsity if it is to win any of its games...