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...secured them the vote; their number in the House of Representatives is close to their proportion of the population; the black middle class has grown so large that it constitutes nearly a third of black families; African Americans of stature and achievement are everywhere in sight (see Colin Powell; Marian Wright Edelman; Ruth Simmons, the new president of Smith College; and Christopher Darden and Johnnie Cochran...
Early on, the thing had a sweet, slapdash air. In 1933 Marian Bergeron, Miss Connecticut, was summoned offstage and a producer said, "My God, she's it!" She was handed a strapless white satin gown and told to take off her bathing suit and change--right there in the wings. Bergeron, now 77 but a decorous 15 at the time, refused: "So two chaperones built a little screen around me, and I put on the gown. Six boys and two girls put a gorgeous robe over my shoulder--it had a train half the size of our living room...
...London, 1944. Marian Ames, the ever-so-gracefully-aging screen queen, is fronting an all-girl band to entertain the Eighth Air Force with tunes that spotlight some of the era's premier lyricists. They play Frank Loesser's Love Isn't Born, It's Made; Johnny Burke's Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes and His Rocking Horse Ran Away; Don Raye's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rhumboogie and Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar. As in any creative assembly, there are spells of emotional fireworks. But the ladies play and sing handsomely, even during an air raid...
...daughter), this band echoes Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators, the outfit Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis joined in Some Like It Hot. Appropriately, Charles Busch, the off-Broadway drag star who co-authored Swingtime's mint-thin book (with Linda Thorsen Bond and William Repicci), is now playing Marian...
...Marian Lewis, the program's director, puthim in touch with Instrumentation TechnologyAssociated Inc., a Pennsylvania company thatdesigns commercial space hardware...