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...first Pursuit of Happiness show this month, lusty Negro Baritone Paul Robeson volunteered. For his song, Director Norman Corwin dug up something called Ballad for Americans. Earl Robinson, its creator, is a two-fisted, not-too-widely recognized minstrel from the State of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...eleven minutes Paul Robeson and a chorus chanted how in 1776 Ol' Sam put on his three-cornered hat, what Patrick Henry told him about liberty or death, about George Washington and Tom Jefferson and what they did, how Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle and Paul Revere a horse race; about Old Abe Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Entitled "U-Boat", the story was signed "HRH," which is believed to be a nom de plume for Rumpot Du Beele '40, Ibis on the Mt. Auburn Street almanac. Robeson Bailey '29, English instructor who graded the paper, is an ex-president of the Advocate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON STORY FLUNKED BY EX-PRESIDENT OF ADVOCATE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

This is no problem of "aiding they inferiors." Taking the field of music alone, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes, Marion Anderson and all the rest of the known Negro artists are peer if not superiors of their white competitors. If we are interested in American democracy, sheets should be used for beds, not hoods...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad of British composers, headed by London's famed and respected 200-lb. Symphonist Ralph Vaughan Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bombster | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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