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...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...
...George Schuyler, a coal-black Negro, was a day laborer before he turned journalist and novelist (Black-No-More, Slaves Today). His white wife, Josephine Schuyler, a Texas-born painter and journalist, prepared for the birth of their child by eating nothing but raw food for three years...
...Schuylers now broil their meat lightly, instead of eating the raw, bloody, buttered beef and liver they used to.) Her parents were not surprised at Philippa's precocity, which began when she crawled 18 inches at the age of a month, read, wrote her name, spelled 150 long words at two. At four she could, and persistently did, spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoniosis.* A pianist since she was a little over three, Philippa Schuyler has repeatedly won prizes in tournaments of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, and in competitions of young listeners to the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Pianist Schuyler has given concerts in auditoriums and theatres since she was six, has engagements this summer in Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Atlantic City. Her mother, whom she calls "Jody," sold the idea of Philippa Schuyler Day to the World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...
...Kankakee, Ill., her sight restored after nine years of total blindness, Mrs. Schuyler D. Burson looked around, blurted, "My goodness, but skirts are short this year...