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...years ago Southern Negroes were afraid to talk to Northern reporters, but now it is the Southern white who is hostile to the "white Yankee" correspondent Dan Wakefield, a free lance writer, told the Dunster House Forum last night...
...Wakefield, a Nieman Fellow, said that the period from 1955-60 brought "the end of innocence" on racial problems...
There is always a tendency to "romanticize" the Negro, said Wakefield. He described the evolution of Jim-Crowism--"All Negroes are lazy, stupid, and have rhythm"--into "Crow Jimism"--"All Negroes are intelligent, industrious, artistic, and have rhythm...
...days when electronics stocks were glamorous, few were more so than Transitron Electronic Corp. of Wakefield, Mass. Its stock went from 36 to 60 in six months, and its sales from $7.4 million to $47 million between 1956 and 1960. But when electronics dipped in mid-1961, partly because of fast-rising imports, none felt the shake-out so sharply as Transitron (which closed last week at 7⅜). And nobody had more trouble than its enterprising brother-founders, David and Leo Bakalar...
...year-old governor was born in tallan district in Wakefield, the son tallan immigrants. He started in the business as a hod carrier later a journeyman plasterer, established his own building firm during the session of the 30's, and by the age of 40 had completed his Horatio Alger drive as a millionaire contractor...