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...Jack Bass, governmental affairs reporter for the Columbia, S.C., State and a Nieman Fellow this year, illustrates the pattern. Bass, 31, was born in Columbia and has spent most of his life in South Carolina. He arrived at Harvard last fall with his wife and three children, two of them schoolage, and ended up settling in Belmont...
...Bass is affiliated with Dunster House (each Fellow has a House affiliation) but visits there "only about once every other week." He and his wife spend most of their evenings in Belmont "because babysitting is a major expense." Both married and single Nieman Fellows receive the same stipend of $160 a week...
...Bass keeps in close touch with events in his state. "There are some big elections next fall and I'll be covering the campaigns over the summer," he explained...
Pantherlike, vain and arrogant, Othello first appears sniffing a rose. His skin is dark as charcoal, his bass-toned speech richly thickened in a kind of classic calypso rhythm. Rolling his r's and his hips, he swaggers into an epic drama of a husband's jealousy reinforced as the story of a black man married to a white woman...
...opposition of his father, a Los Angeles real estate and automobile salesman who felt that the only music career open to a Negro was as a lowly jazzman. When he was five, his mother sneaked him off to a piano teacher, later encouraged his lessons on the double bass, an instrument he "got stuck with" in order to fill a gap in his high-school orchestra. He also played on the school football team and his father hoped that he might make a career out of it. But when young Henry won a job in the bass-fiddle section...