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Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...
...representatives of protest groups whose activities might tarnish the school's bright silver name. But surely the CRIMSON has misquoted Dean Watson on the subject of Mary Gillmors and the Harvard-Radcliffe Socialist Club. Surely a Harvard faculty committee is not planning a rule change to insure that "there wont be any more Mary Gillmors."' Such a statement would indicate lack of good sense, to say nothing of grace...
FRICK COLLECTION-Fifth Ave. at 70th. William Blake, faithful to his own visions, could also be true to another's. In 28 watercolors illustrating Pilgrim's Progress, he yielded to the imagination of the writer, drew Bunyan's familiar figures more literally than was his wont, but also less lyrically. Also a drawing done for Milton's Paradise Regained. Through...
...more than 600 pages, once fined Atlanta newspapers $20,000 for contempt for describing a defendant's past, banned news cameras and tape recorders not only in his courtroom, but also on "adjacent sidewalks and public streets." At 54, Pye is tetchy as a loaded derringer; he is wont to hector witnesses and explode at any moment over what he calls "mongrelization of the races." Trying to be fair to Pye, another Atlanta judge sums up: "He's a fine, decent, honest, hard-working man, except that he happens to be hipped on the subject of race...
When Johnson became Vice President, Baker stayed on as majority secretary. To some, it seemed that Johnson was not really gone at all: Baker slavishly tried to effect a Johnsonian pose, took to standing on the Senate floor as Johnson was wont to do, bracing his shoulders and smoothing his sideburns. Said one observer: "The only thing that was wrong with his act was that he was six inches too short...