Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before coming to Cambridge as a student, Svirsky last year clarified University news for his readers by reporting a mob beating, with race implications, inflicted on two undergraduates. His hiterpretation was hotly contested by the Dean's office, and a fierce battle was subsequently waged in Time's Letters department...
...Literature, and chairman of the committee of Cersorship of the civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts Professor Matthiessen reviewed "Strange Fruit," saying that it was "thoroughly shameful for such book to be banned in Boston at the very time when we need to examine every phase of our American race problems...
...Race Impossible Until...
After the race, Gus looked gloomily at the untapped kegs in his cellar. In London that night there was little of the tipsy tradition that made it a duty of The Day to knock off at least one bobby's high-domed helmet. A girl at her first boat race asked her young man: "What does one do after a boat race?" "Go home," he said...
...stormy night Bee was assigned to cover a bicycle race, and his packet of "Belleville Notes" missed the train to St. Louis. Chapin gave his cub correspondent a screaming tongue-lashing over the telephone. The quaking Behymer hired a rig, drove 14 miles to put the column of trivia on Chapin's desk. He got no thanks, and Chapin growled when he okayed Bee's expense account for $3 for the horse & rig, but his job was saved. He still thinks Chapin was a great man, "but very unscrupulous. He made a newspaperman out of me by keeping...