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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the incident for several days, the U.S.'s Nobel Peace Prizewinning Diplomat Ralph Bunche spilled some distasteful beans in New York City, where he lives and works as the U.N.'s Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In outlying Forest Hills, Bunche's 15-year-old son had been casually invited by his tennis instructor to join the famed West Side Tennis Club, scene of the biggest U.S. tournaments and within walking distance of Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with...
Presidential recollections go on and on. Last week the Washington Post and Times Herald drew some lively ones from old (70) Headwaiter William Reid, long the Pullman Co.'s major-domo in charge of private railway cars for the White House and State Department. Reid's bipartisan White House favorites: Harry Truman and Grace Coolidge. Of Harry: "He got up every morning at 6, and we'd stop the train so he could take his walk." Of Gourmand Warren Gamaliel Harding: "He'd eat anything." Of Calvin Coolidge: "He never used to say much, except when...
...Rookie Centerfielder Bob Allison, 25, handsome, hustling former fullback for the University of Kansas who once swung "like an old lady," according to Manager Cookie Lavagetto, but now has grooved his power so smoothly that he is dubbed "Mr. Downstairs" for his line-drive home runs, stands third in the league with...
...feats even more impressive is Griffith Stadium's pasturelike outfield. There are no near fences to invite Chinese home runs; leftfield is 350 ft. away, centerfield 401 ft., rightfield 320 ft. Faced with this expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious reign: the four sluggers earn some...
Suffering from an infected foot, nine-year-old Mungai Njoroge had his fears calmed and diverted at a Scottish Presbyterian clinic in Kenya by a kindly doctor who showed him test tubes filled with multicolored liquids. Fascinated, Njoroge decided that he wanted to be a physician, a next-to-impossible ambition for a Kikuyu tribesman. But for 24 years Njoroge pursued his dream. Last week, at 33, he was at sea, homeward-bound as Kenya's first U.S.-trained African physician. He will soon start construction of a 50-bed hospital, the first in Kenya to be operated...