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...name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bandleader Benny Goodman presented the N.A.A.C.P.'s 44th annual Spingarn Award (for high achievement by an American Negro) to "an old and cherished friend." Added to such names as George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson: the jazz world's Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington...
Princeton University Marian Anderson, singer, alternate U.S."' delegate to the U.N L.H.D. Citation: "Her transcendent powers of human understanding have made her our most influential cultural ambassador, to the world at large." James Gilluly, staff geologist, U.S. Geological Survey Sc.D. Citation: "Dean of American field geologists, inimitable investigator of the inanimate, he is the spiritual descendant of the classical giant Antaeus, who was never so strong as when his feet stood on terra firma." Mason W. Gross, newly elected president, Rutgers University LL.D. Clark Kerr, newly elected president,' University of California LL.D. Jean Monnet, French economist and statesman...
America Pauses for the Merry Month of May (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The first edition of this vocal version of Wide Wide World hardly showed signs of budding, but the seed catalogue is impressive: Marian Anderson, Carol Haney, Art Carney...
Manhattan's select, intellectually kinetic Cosmopolitan Club for Women last week accepted its first Negro member: Contralto Marian Anderson...
Agaganian's monthlong, 11,000-mile Far Eastern tour began fortnight ago in Saigon, where he presided over South Viet Nam's first Marian Congress. South Viet Nam's 1,150,000 Catholics, including President Ngo Dinh Diem, are a small minority (total population: 15 million), but they are the best-organized religious group in a nation of strife-torn Buddhists. As he moved coolly through blazing heat, the 63-year-old cardinal in scarlet robes and wide-brimmed shepherd's hat was a symbol eyed by the entire nation. Thousands of non-Catholics lined...