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...Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that a colored man is free--'cause those same kids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Actor Canada Lee Claims Education Is Best Antidote For Color Prejudice | 9/26/1941 | See Source »

...ground. Losing his balance, he tumbled down the dome, got wedged against a parapet. Freeing himself, he spotted another incendiary the vestry roof, walked atop a twelve-foot wall carrying a water bucket. The bomb responded to the water treatment by exploding and hurling Fireman Thompson to the concrete pavement below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Life of a Fireman | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...large lump in back of his left ear from approaching a pretty girl in Times Square during the '20s. "Good afternoon, madam-" he had no more than begun when, blam!, something pile-driving hit him from behind. Jimmy turned over and literally threw a punch from the pavement. After the cops had pulled Jimmy out of the crowd and heard his explanation, they told him to beat it and returned to chafing the wrists and temples of the girl's escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Accosting on the Street | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...biggest plane in the world-on the ground. For ten weeks she sat there, on Clover Field at Santa Monica, Calif. In one of her first taxiing tests, the Douglas B-19 had chewed up her hydraulic braking system. Earlier she had broken through the macadam pavement. Some, who should have known Douglas Aircraft and the Air Corps better, said she'd never get into the air, she was too heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: A Laboratory Flies | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...roller overturned, plowed up the pavement in a 9-ft. skid on its back, ground to a stop. Solt, his right leg bruised and his back sprained, crawled to the roller, closed the shut-off valve on the high-pressure fuel tank. Then he was carried home, to the six boys and four girls he had not forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: I Thought of My Ten | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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