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That revolt could be dated roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln...
Five in Camp. The five camped for a while near the damaged plane. Hitchhiker Scalise made an emergency shelter of brush and parachute cloth. The Spam sandwiches intended for lunch lasted five days. Weatherbeaten Sergeant Scalise became cook. His tin helmet made a fine cooking...
Matisse divides his attention equally between model and picture, turning from one to another with the quick, concentrated attention of a fan at a tennis match. When he looks at the model his brush hovers in midair; when he turns back to the canvas it hesitates a split second, then dips and weaves as swiftly as a swallow building a nest...
...nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...
...July 26, about the aged Chinese painter, Ch'ih Pai-shih . . . According to your article he sells his pictures for a dollar. Knowing a bargain when I hear about one in the art market, I sent him $1 cash . . . and today the picture really arrived, a traditional Chinese brush painting of a pair of shrimps. His calligraphy is gross but his figures are sensitive and beautiful...