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...hiding the facts about Negro crime, the "conspiracy of concealment" helps blur the causes of it. Negro leaders themselves often put forward explanations that are oversimple. Some hold that Negro crime is largely the result of migrations from the South: in the unfamiliar environment of the North, the argument runs, Negroes tend to be more crime-prone, just like white immigrants from abroad. But in fact, some studies have shown that, contrary to popular conviction, crime rates among foreign-born whites were lower than among U.S.-born whites...
...York gallery invited three promising American artists to fill out a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque. Elated at the opportunity, the woman member of the trio set out curiously to track down the other two. The first was Willem de Kooning, the second an artist with an unfamiliar name who lived just a block away from her Greenwich Village studio. "I lunged right over," she remembers, "and when I saw his paintings I almost died. They bowled me over. Then I met him, and that was it." In the years that followed, the pair made art history: one with...
...Unfamiliar With Strategy...
...fact, health will be Coach John Yovicsin's greatest problem today. The stirring fight the Crimson put up against Princeton last wekend took a heavy toll in injuries; and Harvard fans scanning the field at game-time are likely to see several relatively unfamiliar jerseys...
...lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime of a man clutching hard to his sanity but turned in some of the finest singing of the evening. In his first appearance at the Metropolitan, Viennese Conductor Karl Boehm, while distinctly slow-paced, achieved a fine balance between his unfamiliar orchestra and his veteran cast. In sum, Mozart and Met in their glory...