Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
...Good Scare. Viewed in that light, recent events were not leading toward war but away from it. Creation of the Little Comintern would help both Europeans and Americans understand the necessity of work and sacrifice in support of the Marshall Plan to keep the non-Communist part of the world stronger. True, the fear of war had grown. But fear and vigilance were close kin. The danger of war between Russia and the West had always lain in the possibility that the West would not understand the danger. The bitter candor of recent weeks was prophylactic, not symptomatic...
Before his father, William Hammerstein, died, he left instructions: "Watch over Oscar. He has a great name, but never let him get near the stage." At Columbia, Oscar got good grades in his law courses, played first base (he was too light for football) and then-fatefully-wrote some varsity shows. His favorite contained a fat part for himself: a comic French waiter called Dubonnet (acting is still one of Hammerstein's secret ambitions). Slowly, he began to dream of the theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they...
...Magic Mechanics. For a year, Oscar slipped through the wings, cueing actors, switching lights and, once, ringing up the curtain prematurely to reveal the property man sitting on a gilded throne with a chorus girl on his knee. He learned the magic mechanics of the theater ("I may write bad scenes, but I never write impractical ones"). His first play (The Light, a drama about a small-town girl) left New Haven completely unmoved. His first success was Tickle Me in 1920. After three years and four flops came his first hit, Wildflower, and his first smash hit, Rose Marie...
Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...