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FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS, the first week of April has often been a time when their heroes have died. In 1950 it was blood-plasma pioneer Dr. Charles R. Drew. In 1968 it was Martin Luther King Jr. Last week it was Carl Stokes of Cleveland, the first black big-city...
DIED. CARL STOKES, 68, former big-city mayor; of cancer; in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1967, when only 37% of Cleveland's electorate was black, Stokes was elected mayor with 50.5% of the vote. His distinction as the first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city would eclipse the subsequent...
She really ought to take lessons from Re, the superb Duchess of Berwick (Marjorie Burren), and the charmingly rakish Cecil (Colin Stokes '96) all of whom play wicked Wilde to the hilt. Each is a marvelous showcase for Wilde's keen observations of petty society cruelties, especially Cecil and his...
In True Way's basement last week, eight women and two men listened raptly as Novel Stokes, a father of five with a Ph.D in psychology, expounded on parenting. "Who do these kids learn from?" he asked. "Their parents!" they answered in unison. "Yes," Stokes insisted. "If we as parents...
The hearing gave various Ohio politicians--Senators John Glenn and Mike DeWine, Representatives Louis Stokes and Martin Hoke, and Cleveland Mayor Michael White--an opportunity to show how much they care. White promised that "as long as there is no team in Cleveland, there will be no peace." Glenn and...