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...business, for one, has its eyes fixed eagerly on the TV antennae and the washing machines. U.S. Negroes today have an annual income of $15 billion a year???almost as much as the national income of Canada, or more than the value of all U.S. export trade. Negro publications, whose advertising columns were until recently dominated by hair-straighteners and skin-bleachers, are now agleam with four-color ads of all the national brands?a dusky glamour girl smiling above a pack of Luckies, Negro men of distinction sipping Calvert, a Negro executive praising Remington typewriters. (Most advertising agencies...
...Congress okayed the expenditure but would not consider taxes to finance it in an election year???until...
...summer from dawn to dusk. But under Virgo, when the sun slants toward its autumnal solstice, he lays down his tools and turns his thoughts to rest and fun. Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year???the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would...
...born in Marblehead, Mass., as were my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents and a generation or two before them. That's the only way you become a Marbleheader, for as our local newspaper once remarked, in the obituary notice of a gentleman who died in his ninety-second year???"He was not a Marbleheader, as he was born in Danvers, although his parents brought him to this town when an infant six months...
Artist Frederick Judd Waugh, Pittsburgh's favorite, is neither unknown, unrecognized nor impoverished. At 73 he is lean and fox-bearded and his dealers, Manhattan's Grand Central Galleries, are proud of him as one of their best sellers. He paints about 75 canvases a year???mostly marines?sells them for from $400 to $2,500 apiece...