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...Detroit's comfortably middle-class Robson Avenue one evening last week, 500 angry people acted out a savage syllogism: 1) Negroes are not welcome on Robson Avenue, 2) the new family is Negro, 3) the new family must get out. To emphasize the harsh conclusion, bigot hands hurled stones through two front windows of the neat brick house. Inside, John Rouse and his family, who had moved in the day before, were shocked and bewildered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Buyer Beware | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Trial (MGM) turns out to be as tellingly effective an anti-Communist movie as Hollywood has ever made. In a few painfully real scenes, iced with satire, Director Mark (Champion) Robson and Writer Don Mankiewicz have drawn an unsettling picture of just how U.S. Communists adopt and then ambush a "good cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Student-inspired attempts to encourage Negroes to apply to Yale have already met with encouraging results, Kenneth Robson '56, chairman of the informal faculty-student committee, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Effort to Combat Myths of Negro Bias Considered Successful | 3/19/1955 | See Source »

...Robson, who began efforts to break down racial misconceptions about Yale during his freshman year, pointed to Harvard's reputation for non-discrimination as a goal. "Our job here is to break down the Yale myth," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Effort to Combat Myths of Negro Bias Considered Successful | 3/19/1955 | See Source »

...entirely in British West Samoa, the movie offers strikingly Technicolored views of the sea, the island and its people, swimming in their blue lagoon, climbing tall palms, and doing their intricately graceful Sasa, classical dance of Samoa. Unlike many other Hollywoodians at large in the South Seas, Director Mark Robson never permits his camera to leer at the native girls as if they were so many Dorothy Lamours, but tells the story with a simple directness that matches the islanders' disarming ways. And Composer Dimitri Tiomkin has written a haunting melody that should do as well as his High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

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