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DEATH REVEALED. THYRA JOHNSTON, 91, inadvertent civil rights pioneer; in Honolulu. Fair-skinned, blue-eyed and one-eighth black, Johnston lived as a white woman in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband Albert, a black physician who also "passed." Their white neighbors were shocked when Dr. Johnston's application for a naval commission in 1940 led him to reveal the couple's racial background. But the small town was ultimately accepting--Dr. Johnston's practice actually increased--and the story became the basis of the 1949 film Lost Boundaries...
...administration must clearly state its dedication to fighting sexism at Harvard, from top to bottom, if any action taken against the Pi Eta club is to be meaningful We are all now talking about the problem, we have to begin to move together to overcome it. Toba Spitzer '85 Thyra Endicott '84 Rani Kronick '84 Stephen Hanna '86 Sarah Browning '84-5 Jeanne Wirka '86 Sarah Jane Holcombe '86 Gina Cattalini '87 Elisabeth Szanto '86 Amy Gluckman '83-4 Laura McDermott '84 Viveka Fuchs...
...Caribbean. Dean Epps' action can only be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate future expression of student opposition to U.S. policies. The Reagan administration's policies have resulted in so much hardship and death, and have generated such strong student opposition, that this intimidation will have no effect. Thyra Endicott '84 Rani Kronick '84 Adam Steinhouse '85 for the H/R Committee on Central America
...took the losing side in a war with the King of Prussia. The feud was not patched up until years later when the Hanoverian prince, Ernst August. Duke of Brunswick, married the daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. The third child (and first daughter) of that marriage was Frederika Louise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick and Liineburg, and present Queen of Greece. She was born on April 18, 1917 in the Hanoverian fortress of Blankenburg, in a united Prussian Germany about to go down to defeat...
Other Biblical characters soon to go on the air are Solomon, Ruth, Esther, David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...