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TIME'S usually keen sense of history seems to have slipped a cog in its story (TIME, Aug. 4) on Liberia's 100th anniversary. You tell us that Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society "as a home for freed slaves from the U.S."; and you tell us that Liberia's current President is named Tubman; but you never tie these two facts together. If you did, you might find they had an exceedingly interesting background...
That to me is a pretty fascinating story. And why, 100 years later, has the President of Liberia the same name? Is President Tubman a descendant? Or did one of the freed Negroes who went to Liberia take the name of a woman who must have been to them something of a saint? Whatever it is, TIME should supply this missing link...
...colored saris. Triumphant light blazed everywhere. Even in the humble Bhangi (Untouchable) quarters, candles and oil' lamps flickered brightly in houses that had never before seen artificial light. The government wanted no one to be unhappy on India's Independence Day. Political prisoners, including Communists, were freed. All death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. The Government, closing all slaughterhouses, ordered that no animals be killed...
...show were 134 oils, watercolors, sculptures and prints by artists of the "Old Northwest Territory" (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin). Among the prizewinners: a windy, sunny street by veteran Chicago Impressionist Francis Chapin; a muscular tangle of nudes by Indiana's Earnest Freed, entitled Battle of the Sexes. First prize ($1,000) went to Cleveland's Dean Ellis, 27, for an encaustic cityscape which might well have been painted by Ellis' former teacher, Karl Zerbe (TIME...
Liberia never had much of a chance. Founded by the American Colonization Society as a home for freed slaves from the U.S., it got its independence in 1847 chiefly because nobody was looking. It was ridden by sleeping sickness and plagued by the Harmattan wind from the Sahara Desert, whose parching breath cracks furniture and leaves books curled up. Some 15,000 freed American slaves and their descendants had established a ruling class. As late as 1930, a League of Nations commission discovered that Liberia's Vice President Allen Nathaniel Yancy himself was head of a ring of slavers...