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...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
Last week Fisk was preparing to install a Van Vechten gift, the George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature, which may be the South's best musical library. It includes letters (by Gershwin, Puccini, Humperdinck, Gounod, Meyerbeer-but none by Negro musicians), operatic and other scores, U.S. first editions, a vast heap of recordings, bursting scrapbooks of U.S. musical history. All this can hardly fail to seduce white scholars from Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Chapel Hill and Duke Universities...
...Council, headed by Chapel Hill's Howard W. Odum and Fisk University's Charles S. Johnson, declared...
Born. To Frederick Fisk Bulkeley, 76, father of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley, PT-boat hero (They Were Expendable), and Virginia Douglas Bulkeley, 42, his second wife: a son, their first child; in Bayonne, N.J. Weight...
...great part of that legend was associated with the position of the House of Morgan. The legend began with the elder Morgan, John Pierpont (Maximus), a Hartford boy who went down to New York to do battle with Fisk and Gould, to trade with Vanderbilt for the control of U.S. railroads, to integrate U.S. industry through the power of finance...