Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Negro can be a first-class fighting man. Of the 404,348 black soldiers drafted and enlisted during World War I, only about 10% were put into overseas combat outfits. With one exception their battlefield record was not so good. Exception was Harlem's 369th. Officered mostly by white men the 369th was brigaded with the French who called its black men les enfants perdus (the lost children) because of their separation from the rest of the A. E. F. The regiment lost 1,100 men killed and wounded, won 172 individual French and American decorations, was able...
...colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school since the first Negro West Pointer (Henry O. Flipper) got his diploma in 1877. Graduated 35th in his class of 276 at the Military Academy, young Lieutenant Davis could not really hope to command white officers in a peacetime army, is now instructor of R. O. T. C. students at Tuskegee Institute...
...when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints, and even paint a star or two himself on the church's ceiling. Four years later with a second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants, he set out for Rio to study art. Kindly professors at Rio's School of Fine Arts offered to give him free lessons. At 15 milreis ($3.75) a month Candido Portinari took up lodgings in a bathroom, slept...
Most notable feature of the school: a special class for conductors from which the Director hopes to turn out five top-rank maestros in five years. Long convinced that a conductor should handle himself as featly as his orchestra, Koussevitzky hired Manhattan Ballet Master Erick Hawkins, partner of famed U. S. Dancer Martha Graham, to teach his pupils podium gestures. Soon Teacher Hawkins had the pupil conductors pirouetting and posturing, trying to become as expressive as dancers. Some of them took it seriously, some were embarrassed. Grumbled one: "Makes a fellow feel selfconscious...
...passionate curiosity about the lives of his fellow men, a plain-clothes man's eye for significant details. Six weeks ago the Herald Tribune's lanky City Editor Lessing Engelking called Rack and gave him a special assignment. By last week it had turned into a first-class detective story, with complications that...