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...Died. Herman Darewski, 64, Russian-born British composer whose K-K-K-Katy was stuttered by millions during World War I, onetime piano teacher to Princess Elizabeth; of a heart ailment; in London...
Peter W. Fay '45, this year's Ivy Orator, won the Philip Washburn prize for his thesis on "Toryism and Social Discontent in Pre-Victorian England," while Sumner and Toppan prizes went respectively to Thomas E. Baker and Herman M. Somers, both of whom are Ph.D. candidates...
Last week in Texas a Negro lawyer who was once a postman tried to force the state university to admit a Negro postman who would like to be a lawyer. Baltimore-born Thurgood Marshall, counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, pleaded the case of Herman Marion Sweatt against the University of Texas (TIME, March 24). The case was now clearly not just another attempt to get "equal facilities" for Negroes, but a major legal assault on educational segregation. Both sides recognized it as the test for similar laws in 17 states...
...week's end, Judge Roy Archer denied Sweatt's application. He based his decision on state law: "Our constitution provides for separate schools." No one thought that the last word in the case of Herman Marion Sweatt had yet been heard. Marshall plans a "showdown fight," all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Herman F. Willkie, liquor-distilling elder brother of the late Wendell, announced that it is silly for anyone to do uncongenial work: "It is possible to make a living at almost anything. . . . One might as well work at something he likes...