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...fine sense of precision also went into the post-war organization of UNESCO and other groups for international cooperation. But a visit to Russia's Science Jubilee and his stand against rough treatment for the soviets brought charges of "sympathizer," and an eventual clash with Congressman Rankin's Un-American Activities committee. "The insinuations were unbelievable," Shapley recalls, "I'm as strong an anti-communist as the average American, probably more so." With a grandfather who was an underground slave runner, Shapley believes in "vigorous citizenship--and I've got three hundred years of ancestors to back...
...Harris' outburst . . . places him in a class with Bilbo and Rankin, names the South nor any section can be proud...
...framers and ratifiesr of the 14th Amendment meant to abolish segregation in the schools. The court got three answers. Thurgood Marshall, for the N.A.A.C.P., said that was clearly the intention. John W. Davis, for South Carolina, said that was clearly not the intention. Assistant U.S. Attorney General J. Lee Rankin said that the evidence was inconclusive, but that on other grounds, the U.S. Government favored an end of segregation...
...visit with the Chinese Nationalists, the U.S. Democratic leader was even more impressed. He had dined and talked with President Chiang Kai-shek ("Very interesting, very interesting," said Stevenson), watched Nationalist troops in maneuvers, listened to U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin and other U.S. and Chinese officials. Stevenson summed up his impressions for newsmen...
Three years ago her voice won her a $3,000 John Hay Whitney fellowship, and she went for advanced study in Paris. Then came a first prize in Geneva's 1951 International Music Competition (other noted winners: the Metropolitan's Nell Rankin and Victoria de los Angeles). Finally, in Holland, she sang the lead in Stravinsky's Nightingale, and the British magazine Opera flatly called her "the outstanding coloratura of her generation...