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Mark DeWolf Howe '28, professor of law and an outspoken supporter of Attorney-General Edward J. McCormack in the Massachusetts Democratic primary, is prepared to announce his support of Professor H. Stuart Hughes' independent candidacy at a rally for Hughes to be held in Faneuil Hall at 7:30 tonight...
...opportunities since he was twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy: "His academic career is mediocre. His professional career is virtually non-existent. His candidacy is both preposterous and insulting...
...Detroit's prestigious Economic Club, hardly a limousine's length away from the National Auto Show, the titans of U.S. autodom last week heard some frank talk from one of their most successful foreign rivals. The outspoken visitor: handsome, hearty Heinz Nordhoff, 63. chairman of West Germany's Volkswagenwerk, which sells in the U.S. one out of every six cars it produces...
...seen for 43 years. In an airport interview with Moscow radio, he was welcomed to "Moscow, home of the classic ballet." Balanchine promptly corrected the interviewer: the home of the classic ballet had moved to America, he insisted; Moscow was the home of the romantic ballet. Balanchine was equally outspoken about the music written by his brother, regarded as the leading composer of Soviet Georgia. "He composes old music," said he, "but not old enough to be Bach...
Averting a Lynching. On the touchy issue of race relations, the Independent was remarkably outspoken for its time. "The Jew and the Negro are not unlike our own people." said the Bank Clerk, a front-page character who held weekly colloquies with the Soda Jerker. "We have our own ignorant, vulgar, loudmouthed, swaggering, chiseling white Christian Nordics." Soda Jerker: "Yes, but with this difference: the Jew and the Negro are minorities and we are in the majority. Our own breed of jackasses so far outnumber us that we long ago gave up the idea of handling them." When a twelve...