Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negroes have similarly tried twice, the Hall has been forbidden ground to over fifteen colored entertainers in the last five years, and just to prove that they do not discriminate only against the entertainment industry, the Daughters ejected an Ethiopian Minister in the middle of a scientific convention. Marian Anderson, the first celebrity to meet Constitution Hall's closed doors, was also the first to find them wide open. In 1951, twelve years after her initial ban, the DAR admitted her right to sing. An apologetic spokesman said that the Daughters had been trying to stop the bannings for years...
...reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed the delegates as fellow "immigrants." The rift widened when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in" 1939 after the D.A.R. refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing in their Constitution Hall...
David H. Alpers, Merion, Pa.; Robert I. Blake, Braintree, Mass.; Norman Bruck, Newark, N. D.; Edward P. Carter, Manchester, N. H.; Marian A. Cheek, Weston, Mass.; Monroe D. Dowling, Jr., New York City; Joseph D. French, Newton, Mass.; Thomas S. Gates 3d, Devon, Pa.; James A. C. Gerry, Spartanburg, S. C.; Norman E. Hartness. Tulsa, Okla.; Fletcher Hodges 3d., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert E. Morrison, Newton, Mass.; John C. Perkins, Hampton, N. H.; Donald G. Richards, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Paul S. Rosenthal, Dorchester, Mass.; George W. Smith Jr., Tiptonville, Tenn.; Kilby P. Smith, Scituate, Mass...
Contralto Marian Anderson left New York's La Guardia Airport bound for her first concert tour of Japan and a stint of troop entertaining in Korea...
Golden Mean. Just 30 years have passed since Miss Marian Ellison, a onetime free-lance tutor to girls, got the idea for her club. "I had always thought," says she, "that there must be some mean between the bluestockings at the universities and the empty-headed young things of the season." The Ellison mean soon proved to be golden. By 1939 the club had three Pont Street houses, a country branch, and a roster of parents with such proud names as Major John Spencer-Churchill, Lord Wavell, and Sir Francis McClean...