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...Mercury article, by Zora Neale Hurston, B.A., Litt. D., Rosenwald and Guggenheim fellow, about some of the U.S. schools fostered by her own Negro race. The better U.S Negro colleges, long aware of the unsavory reputation of such institutions, combined their fund-raising efforts two years ago under the sponsorship of John D. Rockefeller Jr.* This week the United Negro College Fund, headed by Sperry Corp.'s President Thomas A. Morgan, opened its second annual drive, for $1,550,000. The Fund may not include every good Negro college, but its 32 members are all intelligent, imaginative schools urgently...
...will broadcast only its own "analysts," enjoined from offering "personal opinions and interpretations." (Two cautious commentators will become "analysts"; seven livelier commentators will be silenced.) KFI's manager William B. Ryan explained that he was "fed up" with commentators who contradicted one another, was against their commercial sponsorship, skeptical of various commentators' qualifications as "experts," wanted objectivity...
Duke Ellington and his concert orchestra are scheduled to give a semi-classical program in Symphony Hall tomorrow night at 8:30 o'clock. The Duke, under the sponsorship of Spencer Fuller, will appear only once before leaving for a Carnegia Hall engagement. Though some of the Duke's former stars will not be on hand, his presence at the piano will be a notable occasion. Among his other claims to fame is the fact that he was the first popular musician ever to appear in Paine Hall, the University's music center...
...Shih, professor of the History of Chinese Thought and former Chinese ambassador to the United States, will lecture on "The Chinese Problem" in the Lowell House Junior Common Room tomorrow night from 7:30 to 9 o'clock under the sponsorship of the Oriental Club of Harvard...
Plans are rapidly being whipped into shape for a dance to be held in the early part of December under the joint sponsorship of Junior and Senior classes. Mid-shipmen will be our guests for the evening. With the funds built up in the Class Treasuries the cost of such a time should not be too great...