Word: marian
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...member of Harvard's select Society of Fellows, a group of graduate students who were allowed to pursue their studies without worrying about Ph.D. requirements,* Schlesinger plunged into research on the Age of Jackson. In 1940, he also plunged into marriage. His bride was Marian Cannon, daughter of a Harvard Medical School physiologist and now a painter of children's portraits. In 1941 his studies yielded a series of lectures on Jacksonian democracy that became the nucleus for the book that later made him famous...
...Information and the Office of Strategic Services in Washington and Europe, all the while working over the Jackson lectures, revising and expanding them. Just as the war ended, The Age of Jackson appeared. The Schlesingers doubted that Jackson would sell as well as a children's book that Marian had written...
...Crusades. Tuesday concerns itself mainly with Negroes-and, in the first issue, with successful, middle-class Negroes. It has articles on CBS Reporter Joan Murray, Golf Pro Charlie Sifford, Comedians Godfrey Cambridge, Dick Gregory and Nipsey Russell, a Chicago law firm of four Harvard-trained Negroes, and Marian Anderson at home. It runs a Washington column that focuses on news of Negro politicians and civil rights, a teen page, and reviews of books about Negroes. It also has a "Tuesday Opportunities" section, which emphasizes that there are plenty of job chances for Negroes...
Martin Luther King could knock off two categories at once--three, if his Christian names are any indication of his ancestry. Others up for grabs are Edward Brooke, Attorney General of the Commonwealth; Thurgood Marshall. United States Judge for the Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; Marian Anderson; Constance Baker Motley, president of the borough of Manhattan; Sonny Liston, recently retired; and Warren G. Harding...
John Doar, Chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice; Robert F. Drinan, S. J., dean of the Boston College School of Law; Marian Elizabeth Wright, Legal Defense Fund attorney in Jackson, Miss.; and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 march of Washington, will also speak...