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TITLE II provides an even $100 million to buy textbooks and expand school libraries, including the purchase of books, periodicals, phonograph records. The money will go directly to state agencies, will be handled entirely by the states, but distribution of the materials must be made equitably to private-as well as public-school students "to the extent consistent with" state law. To avoid legal complications, ownership of the materials will be retained by the public agency. The program is not tied to the poor; funds will be split among the states according to their percentage of all the nation...
...nights he spends at the movies, laughing convulsively at the cartoons. His one abiding passion besides dancing is music. He has a collection of more than 4,000 records-Chopin, Bach, Callas arias, Scriabin, and every album Peggy Lee ever put out. He never travels anywhere without his portable phonograph. He plays the piano, can listen to almost any classical recording and tell who is conducting...
...seven popular, thinly fictionalized accounts (Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess) of his own Prohibition-era bohemian ways, at 52 launched yet another career as a renowned, and certainly magnanimous, portrait photographer (he gave his work to his subjects free of charge), all the while amassing enough Negro manuscripts and phonograph records from his old uptown haunts to establish the U.S.'s largest collection of Harlem's home-grown art at Yale University; in Manhattan...
Beatle humor is visual and aural. We laugh when we see them gaily fleeing an army of girls, or when we hear them tossing insults at one another. But their spontaneous charm does not survive the transition from phonograph and movie screen to printed page. In His Own Write needs the sight and sound of John and his three friends. Without them the book book is dull. Sometimes even grotty
...lonely antebellum brick house near Karnack, Texas, on Dec. 22, 1912. Her mother, Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor, a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils. She fussed over food fads, played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie weird and standoffish. Says a longtime friend of Lady...