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...fact, Randolph Hall (now Adams D--I entries) allegedly has chambers in the basement known as the "slave quarters"; here the personal valets of the Indian princes and maharajas supposedly kept inventory of "Master's" persian rugs and stock of incense...
...discussion of General MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued that since Communist China was the aggressor the invitation should be called a "summons." Snapped Russia's Jacob Malik: "When a colonial power speaks to a colonial slave it may 'summon' . . . him, but in the present case the term should be 'to invite...
Despite his other achievements, the U.N.'s Ralph J. (for Johnson) Bunche, Palestine mediator and 1950 Nobel Peace Prizewinner, likes to list his profession as "educator." At 46, Schoolman Bunche, grandson of a slave, has spent more than half his life on college and university campuses. A graduate of the University of California in 1927 (where he was a crack basketballer), he took his Ph.D. at Harvard. Later, he studied anthropology at Northwestern, The London School of Economics, and Capetown University, finally became professor of government at Howard University in Washington...
...coffee, New York's Governor Dewey arose to welcome the delegates and promptly aimed a roundhouse punch at the most sensitive of the guests. "It would be folly," said he, "to ignore the harsh fact that while the Soviet Union has ten to 15 million people living as slave labor ... no person anywhere in the world can sleep nights with any sense of security...
...rieure de Guerre in Paris (then renowned as one of the world's great theory-of-warfare schools) and won it handily. Because work at the école was fantastically hard, marines who attended it called it "a period of great suffering." While Smith toiled like a galley slave, his daughters studied geometry in French. During vacations the family toured Europe, passing up nightclubs for Baedeker's monuments...