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...visitor to Greenville, Miss., Novelist Alan Paton, whose Cry, the Beloved Country was an eloquent condemnation of South Africa's white-supremacy notions, eyed Southern U.S. race relations. Said Briton Paton: "In Mississippi I find a determination to provide equal but separate facilities [for whites and Negroes]. The time has come when the people of the South are willing to pay more for their prejudices than before...
...honorable portraits of 13 former mayors of the Japanese city of Moji (pop. 110,000) which hang in the office of Municipal Assembly President Kiichi Suematsu, the likeness of an Occidental dignitary was placed. It was the celebrated nude calendar photograph (3 ft. by 2 ft.) of a recent visitor to Japan, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Explained Assembly President Suematsu, whose idea it was to round out his gallery: "The picture should serve to rejuvenate our municipal assemblymen...
Many U.S. labor leaders have contented themselves with shouting their criticism from across the political chasm that separates them from the Republican Administration. Not so the C.I.O. Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, a Democrat who has been a frequent White House visitor since Jan. 20. 1953. Last week Dave McDonald again dropped in on President Eisenhower, who likes him and respects his judgment. What McDonald had to say about the nation's economy left the President visibly impressed...
Arturo Toscanini had a birthday last week, and as usual refused to take the slightest formal notice of the event. On his 87th birthday, when he was scheduled to rehearse his NBC orchestra, he stayed home and let a visitor take his place-and newspapers suggested that it was, among other things, the Maestro's way of avoiding congratulations from his musicians...
...orchestral and choral works, is perhaps one of the most pleasant to sit through. For example, Davison describes Schumann's meeting with Johannes Brahms in this fashion: "'Guten Morgen, I am glad to know you. Won't you come in?' The two moved into the living room where the visitor's eyes immediately rested on the piano. Schumann hastened to ask, 'Won't you please play something of your own composition...