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...Italy, as elsewhere in Europe, two of the standard Communist-propaganda charges against the U.S. are that 1) Americans are materialistic and cultureless, 2) the Negroes are downtrodden. Last week the U.S. Information Agency fended off two stones with one appointment by naming Frank M. (for Martin) Snowden Jr., 43, professor of classics at Washington's Howard University, as cultural attache in the U.S. embassy in Rome. Snowden is a Negro, and he is far from cultureless. He holds A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in classics from Harvard. As an under graduate (class...
Born in Virginia and reared in Boston, Snowden knows Italy well. He studied there in 1938 as a Rosenwald fellow, and in 1949-50 as a Fulbright scholar. In 1953, as a lecturer for the State Department's International Information Administration, he told Italian audiences, in fluent Italian, about the improving lot of the Negroes in the U.S. From Rome, Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce notified Washington that Snowden's tour of Italy was "a very great success" and subsequently recommended him for the attache post. Remarked an Italian newspaperman last week: "This is the only kind of propaganda...
Gushing Out. What is Texmass and why did it want RFC money? The subcommittee learned that in 1945 a group headed by Dallas Oil Promoter Homer W. Snowden persuaded 350 wealthy Bostonians to invest more than $8,000,000 in separate oil projects, managed by Snowden and his associates. Later they formed the Texmass Petroleum Co. to take over the oil & gas properties in Texas. In the spring of 1947 Texmass borrowed $4,000,000 from Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. and $3,500,000 from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. Later, the 350 Bostonians put up another...
...started a couple of years ago when Homer Snowden decided it was a shame that Christmas had become so commercial. "People are forgetting the story of Christ's birth and the real meaning of Christmas," said Homer, a Texan through & through, a millionaire wildcatter, and as determined a Christian as ever wore cowboy boots...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...