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Never Too Late cannot accurately be called a screen version of the Broadway comedy hit by Sumner Arthur Long. It is the play itself, canned and sweetened and shrewdly spiced to suit mature housewives with an appetite for nice clean escape. Late is brazenly unsophisticated, as harmless as rose breeding and just a tiny bit more titillating...
...confident that it will do much to contribute toward the advancement of the high objectives which it so eloquently urges upon American public opinion."--Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State...
...clear on this. I was fascinated by the concept of a predominantly Negro institution," he recalls. He remembers Howard in the 30's as a mecca of Negro intellectuals whose academic and social concerns coincided, and fondly recounts bull sessions with the likes of Franklin Frazier, Abraham Harris, Francis Sumner, and Ralph Bunche...
...Republican politicking down South pure cynicism by any means. After all, such Radical Republicans as Pennsylvania's Representative Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts' Senator Charles Sumner were the same ones who had been passionate prewar abolitionists. To suppose that they lost their ideals at Appomattox, writes Stampp, is absurd. "In fact, Radical Reconstruction ought to be viewed in part as the last great crusade of the 19th century romantic reformers." Other historians might boggle at calling the spiteful Stevens a romantic...
Professors Lucian Pye and Philip & Morrison from M.I.T., and Professor Sumner Rosen from Simmons will also speak at the gathering...