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...overriding fact of color was always there. Lamming remembers his pal Boy Blue explaining: "Just as I wus goin' to born the light went out." And Lamming himself testifies: "No black boy wanted to be white, but it was also true that no black boy liked the idea of being black. Brown skin was a satisfactory compromise . . . The best-looking girls in the village were those whose mothers had consorted with white men . . . One was known throughout the island-as the crystal sugar cake...
Across the river in New Jersey, Robert B. Meyner was elected the state's first Democratic governor in ten years in a contest billed as a popularity test for the Elsenhower administration. Incomplete returns, gave Meyner 742,587 votes to 581,900 for his rival, Republican Pal L. Troast...
...Jersey area for years, and labor leaders, industrialists and politicians paid him homage. (Once Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City welcomed him home from a European trip with a chartered boat and the Jersey City police band aboard.) But Joey got into trouble: in 1945 he and his pal Jim Bove, vice president of the Hod Carriers Union, got 7½-to-15-year prison stretches for conspiracy to extort $368,000 from contractors for New York City's $300 million Delaware aqueduct. When the iron doors of Sing Sing clanked behind him, the public assumed it had heard...
...something was radically wrong. One little boy confessed that he could not read the postcards his mother had sent him from Honolulu. A teen-age grocery clerk had to admit that he could not read handwritten orders. Another boy told his mother that he could not decipher his pen pal's letters. A little girl said she could not sign her name "because I can't do capitals." Last May six mothers and fathers finally formed a Parents' Research Committee to look into the matter further. Was there any valid reason, they wanted to know, why Brookline...
...dramatic sketch midway in his comedy show. He turns down most offers to guest-star his ventriloquist act on other television programs, but he keeps an ear cocked for calls for Paul Winchell, actor. It's not that he doesn't have enormous affection for his wooden pal Jerry, but he asks: "How long can I stick with him? My project is building...