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...Reported by Greg Burke on board the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Massimo Calabresi/ Belgrade, Bruce van Voorst/ Bonn and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...Sanhedrin should have no beef: Mickey is not bad for the Jews; he is bad for everybody. But orthodox feminists will be driven nuts by Drenka the Insatiable, and the Japanese will be offended by Mickey's ravings against a defeated enemy's celebrated prosperity. "In his grave, Franklin Roosevelt is spinning like an atomic dreydl," he cries in a two-page riff about raw fish and "the Land of the Rising Nikkei Average...
DIED. SELMA BURKE, 94, artist; in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Burke rose to prominence in the creative caldron of New York City's "Harlem Renaissance." You may be carrying her best-known work at this very moment--the profile of Franklin Roosevelt that appears on the dime, which is based on a drawing Burke rendered on butcher paper after a 1943 encounter with F.D.R...
...real-life story of the Tuskegee airmen began in 1939, when black leadersstarted to pressure President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to desegregate the armed forces. But among the military brass "there was a general consensus that colored units are inferior to the performance of white troops, except for service duties,'' according to a 1942 memo to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. And the idea of blacks flying planes was preposterous to many white officers. Williams, who had learned to fly in his hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa, before the war, recalls applying for military service when he was 20 and being told...
...Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African-American civilian flight instructors training the Tuskegee pilots, there were several suicides and daredevil fatalities among the intensely frustrated young flyers. Things began to change when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee in 1941 and, against the advice of her staff, took a test flight with Anderson. It was a well-publicized vote of confidence in the program. Soon the 99th Fighter Squadron was formed under the command of Benjamin O. Davis, the first black graduate of West Point...