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Neighboring Newark had gone farther. Last winter, after an earlier series of Blanshard articles, the Nation had been removed from the libraries of Newark's four high schools by the school superintendent. When Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey protested, the Newark board of education (five Catholics, three Protestants, one Jew) unanimously backed the superintendent. In Trenton, N.J., school officials clipped the articles from the magazines before they were put in the libraries...
...Kaiser. Henry Kaiser took over another surplus war plant: the War Assets Administration leased the $22.8 million, 36-building aluminum mill at Newark, Ohio to Kaiser's Permanente Metals for ten years. Terms: 5% of the first year's sales, $125,000 a year minimum for the second, third and fourth years, and $250,000 minimum thereafter...
...Hope. Three days before, Brooks had left his wife Ruth and his daughter Elizabeth vacationing in Maine, and flown to Newark on a last, desperate hope. There he hired a car. He called Watkins at his home in Princeton, asked him to have dinner with him at the Princeton Inn. The shadows lay long on the grass, and the dining room was beginning to fill when Watkins drove up and parked in the drive outside the inn. Brooks walked over...
...Know the Score." Negro Publisher Davis Lee of the Newark weekly Telegram (circ. 110,000) found a Negro's life below the Mason-Dixon line more tolerable than north of it. In an editorial he wrote: "When I am in Virginia or North Carolina I don't wonder if I will be served if I walk into a white restaurant. I know the score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union...
...unraveled a bit; the A's dropped from second to fourth, behind the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Manager Bucky Harris had desperately shaken up his in & out Yankees after losing four straight games (the new first baseman: Outfielder Tommy Henrich), and sent to Newark for 24-year-old Pitcher Bob Porterfield. Rookie Porterfield won two of his first three games...