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...which aims to embrace the 1,500,000 Negro members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers, etc.), get Negroes into apprentice training programs now closed to them, and lift Negroes to loftier positions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. command. Chapters of Randolph's all-Negro group are abuilding from New York to the Pacific Coast. Despite Meany's opposition to such racially based splinter groups, the founding convention is set for Detroit this May. And Meany's whittling of Congressman...
...Chief reason: both Defendant Green and Judge Murphy are Irish Catholics, old political and personal pals. Thus, claimed Green, Murphy might bend over so far backward to avoid favoritism as to be prejudiced against Green (TIME, March 24). Last week Judge Murphy replied to Green-but on a much loftier plane of the law. "As judges," wrote Murphy, "we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution and are equally bound by our judicial obligations, whether we derive our citizenship from the earliest or the latest immigrants to these shores." The mere...
...common knowledge that when anything of a finer nature, or loftier thoughts, is presented to a small-souled person it is met with hostility and contempt. Your Dec. 30 reviewer of Candles in the Sun is no exception. He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. As for the author of the book, the less said about her the better...
...moon eyes. He is a sort of cleaned-up Presley. He enunciates better and grinds less, is less vulgar in sound and manner, also less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled several thousand youngsters into Tommy Sands fan clubs...
Britons and Test Pilot Roland Falk may be aloft [Sept. 19], but are no loftier than Boeing's top test pilot, Alvin M. ("Tex") Johnston...