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...York's Harlem, the world's biggest Negro community, the weekly Amsterdam News speaks with a loud voice. But when the Negro-owned-and-staffed News hiked its price from 10? to 15? in 1946, its voice began to quaver as circulation slipped from a peak of 110,000 to around 65,000. In an effort to get the frog out of its throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley...
Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
...wiry little man who usually sported a billygoat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific almost from start to finish, was in Tokyo when a new war sent him to Korea. The third I.N.S. man was young (22), eager Ken Inouye, New York-born son of a Japanese consular official. A fledgling cameraman for Telenews, I.N.S. television affiliate, he had already made a reputation for his battle shots...
...Independence came to 15 million former British subjects here in January. 69. This "bridge" between East and West fell, under Communist' pressure, in March. 70. On this island, a New York-born Premier lost his job after 16 years. 71. Here, after a 50-year reign, a sovereign gives up the throne...
...daughter of Japan's special "peace" envoy to Washington at the time of Pearl Harbor, and Frank White, 27, ex-U.S. Army recreation officer, now a civilian employed by MacArthur's headquarters; in Yokohama, in a ceremony attended by neither her father nor her New York-born Caucasian mother...