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...second largest fortune *in the State of New York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude was complete; we were never in a single case...
Greying, blue-eyed Walter White, for 16 years executive secretary of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has a skin so light that he frequently has to explain that he is, in deed, a Negro. Last week, in the Saturday Review of Literature, Propagandist White talked openly about a subject many Ne groes are careful to avoid: the Negro who lives secretly as a white man. Wrote he : "Every year approximately 12,000 white-skinned Negroes disappear - people whose absence cannot be explained by death or emigration. Nearly every one of the 14 million discernible Negroes...
...owners of the Red Rose Inn in West Grove, Pa., solemnly went through the yearly ceremony stipulated by a 216-year-old deed, handed over one red rose to the heir of William Penn. The heir: Amy Penn-Gaskell Hall, II, a tenth direct descendant of Penn...
...Scottish ballad was "the best when sailor that ever sail'd the sea." Nevertheless, when the King assigned him to command a bad-weather cruise to Norway, gude Sir Patrick asked a question his namesake may have cause to repeat: "O wha is this has done this deed and tauld the king...
...Long Night (RKO Radio] is a powerfully unified, extravagantly energetic melodrama about a bewildered killer (Henry Fonda) and the cause and consequence of his deed. The killer is trapped in his little room, high in a poor man's hotel. He refuses to surrender. All night, while law & order works its way toward him and the curious public mills in the street below, he recalls in flashbacks the events leading up to the crime...