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Virginia. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People clamped a boycott on a scheduled Richmond concert by Negro Singer Marian Anderson. Reason: white people were being discriminated against. All the choice center-section seats had been reserved for Negroes...
...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
Philco TV Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m. NBC-TV). I'm Still Alive, with Burgess Meredith and Haila Stoddard. ^ Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Contralto Marian Anderson...
...Sowers of Evil." Occasionally even these meager rights have been violated by mob action. Six weeks after one such episode, reports Garrison, "the periodical El Iris de Paz ('the Rainbow of Peace'!), by its own description 'a fortnightly magazine of information and guidance, Marian and Catholic'-answered a real or imaginary inquirer who asked: 'Is it lawful to enter into chapels or meeting places of Protestants . . . with the sole idea of disturbing and of destroying the furniture and other articles?' The answer was in three parts: 1) as to 'disturbing...
...last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce); Jalousie (performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra); Make Believe, from Show Boat (sung by Allan Jones...