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...Curt Tucker started the second game against Washington and Lee and survived some control problems to win, 10-4, with some excellent relief from Dave Florke. Todd posted his one-hit shut-out in the final classic game...
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...travail in the shimmering Georgia cotton fields. It simultaneously comforted the second-class citizen and nurtured his sense of subservience during the agonizing disappointment of Reconstruction and through the long dark age of de jure segregation. Flight from reality, as illustrated in the nonsense lyric of Dan Tucker, formed the bedrock of the earliest Negro humor. Later, vaudeville, radio and the movies perpetuated the blackface minstrel stereotype of the happy-go-lucky devourer of watermelons...
...reporter-me." Sometimes employers will lower hiring standards for blacks, many of whom lack training simply because they never received much encouragement to go into journalism. This can lead to resentment on the part of qualified blacks, who feel that it casts suspicion on their own abilities. Says Lem Tucker, a Washington correspondent for NBC: "I can understand the initial skepticism. But after two years of doing good work, it makes me mad." Many black newsmen persist, however, and some have already demonstrated that they are among the best newsmen...
...Tucker has an advantage over the other hurlers at the plate. An outfielder last season, he is a switchhitter and batted 286 as a sophomore...