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...kin to British Actor Sir Ralph Richardson...
...kin to the Administration's proposed Youth Conservation Corps for putting jobless youngsters to work...
...Black? At the head of the Defense Supply Agency is Lieut. General Andrew McNamara (no kin), former Army Quartermaster General, who was called home from his post as deputy commander of the Eighth Army in Korea to direct the agency. McNamara operates on the theory that the customer is not always right. When the Army and Navy wanted to standardize on a 12? brass belt buckle, the Air Force wanted silver and the Marines sought a 29? open-face buckle. General McNamara finally said it would be a 12? item - and black. "But why black? No one asked for black...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...
Foster, a poor boy from Boston, had everything to do with Reed. He went to Harvard and hated it. Foster in 1911 became the first president of Reed, which had been founded with $1,500,000 left by the widow of Simeon G. Reed (no kin of John), a Columbia River shipping magnate. Foster deliberately made Reed the informal, freewheeling opposite of then snooty, monolithic Harvard...