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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Life [March 25], I grew nauseous at first, and then alarmed to find that sales of all his books "have vaulted over the 4,000,000 mark." He is, I fear, the prophet of a new religion, the end of which is the conscious attainment of quiet desperation via self-administered brainwashings...
Halfway around the globe from Australia and the problems of Southeast Asia flew U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to land at Washington National Airport-and to find Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir, fresh-flown from the Middle East via Paris, already waiting for him with new and critical problems in her part of the world...
...poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such letters were vivid proof that he had hold of a good story. At week's end he ordered Norma Lee to brave the mountain menace for six more installments...
...Force officer during World War II, Levee went to Paris to study painting on the G.I. bill. First registered at the Academic Julian, he was nearly thrown out for flouting academic standards, wound up sharing the school's Grand Prix second prize with his Parisian wife. Approaching abstraction via Cezanne and the Cubists, Levee also shows the influence of his French contemporaries Pierre Soulages and the late Nicolas de Stael. but now feels his painting is becoming less French, more American, "less architectural, less constructed, more organic...
Introduction via TV. When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in May 1954, Washington's tall (6 ft. 5 in.), intense Superintendent Hobart Corning lost no time in putting through a plan for wholesale desegregation. "Transition," he told his teachers, "will not be easy," but he had already done much to pave the way. Among other things, the school system had produced a series of broadcasts that brought Negro teachers into white classrooms and white teachers into Negro classrooms via TV. In 1953 teachers began holding a series of interracial conferences on the problems that integration would...