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...story of its shameful deeds toward us." A well-to-do New York white woman, Mary White Ovington, covered that speech for the New York Evening Post, with other liberals conceived the idea of a national biracial conference on the Negro question. She helped persuade Post Publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, who later edited the Nation for 15 years, to write a "Call to Action" that led directly to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P. Among those who issued the call on Lincoln's Birthday 1909 were Professor John Dewey, William Lloyd Garrison, Jane Addams, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Lincoln...
There was no suggestion of divorce. But at last the papers could break out pictures of the contessa, who turned out to be no contessa at all, but Maria Christina Vettore Austin. Born in Venice 36 years ago of well-to-do parents, she cultivated a taste for international high life, and married and divorced a British naval officer named William Austin, now dead. Christina and Henry Ford met in Paris at a party given by Grace Kelly Rainier...
...well-to-do Mormon bishop bought Breedlove an airplane jet engine. Designers helped him with problems of aerodynamics. He drew up a brochure, built a tiny-scale model of his car, went in search of sponsors. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donated the special tires he needed, and Shell Oil Co. agreed to pick up the rest of the bill. "He's a remarkable salesman," said one Shell executive. Shell's contribution came to about...
...outwardly, from Red Amazons to reasonably fashionable women: slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of France's Red Boss Maurice Thorez, could have stepped out of the Galeries Lafayette, if not Dior. Once-dowdy Lotte Ulbricht, married to East Germany's lackluster President, could pass as a well-to-do provincial Hausfrau, and India's Aruna Asaf Ali looked striking in silk, making it hard to believe that as a dedicated saboteur she once moved the British to put a price of 10,000 rupees on her head. "Our Congress is a manifestation of charming womanhood, motherly...
...ironies, belongs with the best of the literature on Nazidom. Written by a Lithuanian novelist who spent the war in Nazi-occupied Lithuania, it tells of a decent German aristocrat who turns into a Nazi killer with chilling ease. Messkirch, narrating the story of his own fall, is a well-to-do landowner in rural Germany. He takes pride in being a skeptic, a cut above the fanatical urban upstarts who are running the country. But in countless small ways, he betrays the weaknesses of character -the obtuseness, the occasional coarseness, the racism-that the Nazis know so well...