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...seen the change in every segment of society: blacks, non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics," says Marian Willinger, director of SIDS research at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and a co-author of the JAMA study. Much of the credit goes to a public-health campaign begun in 1994 under the slogan Back to Sleep. But not everyone has got the message. Those who are still more likely to place their infants on their stomachs include mothers ages 20 to 29, African Americans in the inner city and families who live in Middle Atlantic or Southern states...
...Human Welfare in Birmingham, Ala., she refused to abide by a segregation ordinance that required her to sit in the white section of the auditorium, apart from her black friends. The following year, she publicly resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution after it barred the black singer Marian Anderson from its auditorium...
...currently working on a book about man's initiation into the feminine world with Marian Woodman, a Canadian psychologist...
...greatest concert singers of this generation is Marian Anderson, Philadelphia-born Negro contralto. Since she skyrocketed to fame in Salzburg four years ago, the music-lovers and critics of the world's musical capitals have counted it a privilege to hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in Washington, D.C., might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush--much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
Last January, when contralto Anderson's manager tried to book Constitution Hall for a concert in April, D.A.R. officials said they were sorry but the hall was taken. When alternative dates were suggested, the D.A.R. frostily replied that all the dates were taken. While irate Washingtonians formed a Marian Anderson's Citizens' Committee and held a mass meeting attended by 1,500, Violinist Jascha Heifetz, who arrived in Washington on a concert tour, said he was "ashamed" to appear in Constitution Hall under the circumstances...