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Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
Collector of Oils. With his oil wealth, Gulbenkian acquired one of the world's finest private art collections, including the famed September Morn by Paul Chabas, and a palatial house on Paris' Avenue d'Iéna. Yet he lived in such fear of his life that he invariably spent his nights in a Paris hotel, where he felt safer...
...this editorial process is the last issue's National Affairs section. Senior Editor Otto Fuerbringer, his six writers, eight researchers considered some 35 stories at their conference on Thursday at the beginning of TIME'S editorial week. It was not a big week in Washington, and NA was free to look around the country a bit. Some stories went to Business (portal-to-portal) and Sports (its low estate), and NA, which runs an average 14 stories a week, wound up with a schedule of 20 stories...
...know," said one of the students as the TIME correspondent took his place at the beer table, "for two years I fought Americans. Now it seems strange to sit down at a table in the university yard and drink schnapps with one." "Na, Hans," laughed the others, drinking their brandy out of fancy glasses etched with a swastika, "don't get excited. If you on the West had half the experiences with Russians that we did, there'd be reason for tension. Here is an American newspaperman who wants to know what the few young Germans left...
...student repeated the old Nazi line that war between Russia and the West was inevitable. "Na, ya" another said, "this doesn't get us anywhere. We have to get along somehow even with the Russians." His companions chorused: "Impossible. There are too many of them and they're too strong and the world doesn't recognize what they are. They take everything, our houses, our furniture, our property. If we object we will be done away with. In any case our children will be brought up Bolsheviks...