Word: pearls
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Died. Arna Wendell Bontemps, 70, prolific black author and a leader of the literary movement of the '20s known as the "Harlem Renaissance"; of a heart attack; in Nashville, Tenn. The 1946 musical St. Louis Woman, which presented Pearl Bailey in her first Broadway role, was based on Bontemps' first novel, God Sends Sunday. Poems, plays and biographies flowed from Bontemps' pen, and he was a scholarly anthologist of Negro writing, which he called "the most substantial body of captivity literature in the world since the Bible...
Died. General Alan Shapley, U.S.M.C., 70, who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor to become the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific; of a lung tumor; in Bethesda, Md. Shapley was commander of the Arizona's 87-Marine detachment in December 1941 and one of the ship's nine Marine survivors. Awarded the Navy Silver Star for his gallantry during the Pearl Harbor attack, he served through much of the subsequent fighting in the Pacific and later in Korea, and in 1961 was named commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force...
When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...
...that the United States would ever sacrifice its basic national security interests for China's sake. During the last 150 years, the United States has never risked its neck for China. It is hard to forget that until shortly before Japan's attack on the U.S. navy base at Pearl Harbor, the United States continued to supply Japan with scrap iron and oil crucial to its decade-long war effort against China...
...From his early investigative days to the present, the President's strength has been based in Middle America, not in Cambridge. But with the exception of Secretary Brennan, who, impartial observers acknowledge, embodies the finest traditions of American labor with his impassioned defense of free speech, his pearl-handled Derringer and his heroic oppostion to imperialistic wars, the President's recent appointments have been Harvard men -- Richardson, Weinberger, and most recently Dunlop. Few of these pointy-headed intellectuals can park a bicycle straight, and most if not all of them put on their pants one leg at a time...