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...friend, Marcus Maudsley, uses him as a plaything--one with macabre attractions, to be sure. Leo, the orphaned son of a shabby-genteel pacifist and book-collector, is notorious at his school only because of his black magic. There is no real affection present in the relationship; a thick oil of politeness surrounds the entire Maudsley family. The Maudsleys test each other aesthetically rather than touch and exchange emotions or ideas...
Hickman equalled his best time of the year in the hurdles with a 7.4-second performance. He, too, however, ran third in his heat and lost in the quarterfinals. Marcus Walker of Colorado won with a time...
...lingering internationalism and the hope it offered for the liberation of all the oppressed in "Africa, Asia, in America and the islands of the sea." One has to remind oneself that the lecture must have been a tribute to DuBois: the true begetter of Pan-Africanism, and not to Marcus Garvey, the "black Zionist." George Padmore in his brilliant book on Pan-Africanism had made a pertinent observation on the matter: "While Garvey opposed white race prejudice with black, DuBois combated racial arrogance and social chauvinism on both sides. This he did by making a scientific study...
...Georg Jensen's found that normally fast-moving $1,500 jewelry was being passed up in favor of the $25-to-$125 variety. "The best-known store in Texas has dropped from its popular Christmas catalogue the traditional tips on "How to spend a million dollars at Neiman-Marcus...
...world and time, all Johnson could see were follow blacks only wishing to emulate Whitely in their own modest fashion. DuBois NAACP was then a fledgling organization, unable to effect any vigorous social change: and Marcus Garvey, whose separatist Universal Negro Improvement Association Johnson later preached for, had not yet landed on U. S. shores...