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Died. Leigh Whipper, 98, veteran black character actor; in Manhattan. Among his early parts was a role in an 1898 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in which he sang Old Black Joe. After serving in the Spanish-American War, Whipper spent 74 years in character roles in plays and films like Porgy and Of Mice and Men. In 1920 he became the first black member of the Actors Equity Association, which did not know his color when he was admitted...
...responsibilities to a professionally over-committed young husband ('55, '58) and our first-born. Having temporarily relinquished my prospects for continuing formal education, I was thrilled to imagine that despite biological destiny I might have my family cake and conquer it, too. I enrolled in "A Survey of Spanish-American Literature" under Professor Juan Marichal, now chairman of the Department of Romance languages, and have been translating Pablo Neruda slowly ever since...
...vantage point I had," says Westmoreland. "Therefore I feel I can cast light on some of the situations we faced in a way that will contribute to understanding the history of the period." One of those situations, he says evenly, is that he was the first commander since the Spanish-American War who "had to look over his shoulder and to reflect on the support of the home front as anything other than an asset." In other accounts of the war, says Westmoreland, "I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Viet Nam have been given...
...that his readers have no solid grasp of U.S. history. In this he is certainly correct. His solution, though, is to cover the whole subject in a chalktalk. This he might have done, and usefully, but not in a 400-page book. Among the subjects not mentioned are the Spanish-American War, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the building of the Erie Canal, the suffragettes, baseball, universal secondary education and the establishment of the land-grant colleges, the writing of Thoreau, Melville, Twain, O'Neill, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway...
...great problem arose once the United States reached the Pacific, and the territory that it had been her "manifest destiny" to occupy had been taken. Half of the 25-year period between the end of reconstruction and the Spanish-American War were years of depression. Workers employed in railroad construction were being laid off. With the completion of the national railroad system and the industrialization of agriculture, both heavy industrialists and large commercial farmers were looking anxiously for markets. The traditional outlet of westward expansion appeared closed...