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...Bloody Sixth. Doing blackface skits and clog dances, miming Chinese laundrymen, Swedish servant girls and balloon-pants Dutch comics, the team clicked in Boston and New York. Harrigan discovered that he could write, and found a timely subject, the clash of the immigrant races amid settings of squalid realism. Haunting the "Bloody Sixth" Ward with notebook in hand, Harrigan transplanted New York lowlife to the stage to the immense delight of such real-life prototypes in the peanut gallery as One-Lung Pete, Slobbery Jack and Jake the Oyster. Together with his father-in-law David Braham, Harrigan also turned...
...charge was a slim and sandy-haired Swede with an easy smile, a sensitive mouth, and eyes the same color as the light blue U.N. flag. He is Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the U.N. and the world's No. 1 international civil servant...
...stand between the representatives of Israel and the Arabs, India and Pakistan, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Hammarskjold does not fancy himself as a "World Moderator," as the U.S. Government once suggested the Secretary-General should be called. He sees himself more modestly as the U.N.'s chief servant, ready to do the bidding of his bosses, the 60 nations. In the name of the United Nations, Hammarskjold last winter journeyed to Peking to plead on behalf of humanity for the freedom of Americans held captive by the Red Chinese. His mission was a success, but Hammarskjold, characteristically, claimed...
...Mohammed Ali Ag Attaher, a rich and powerful man, engaged me as a servant," a half-naked African told the French police in Bamako. "At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That was a long time ago-about 15 years. I should say. All of us made the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and there my master sent me to work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told...
Roscoe Pound, University Professor Emeritus and Dean of the Law School from 1916-36, has been awarded the $15,000 William Volker Award "for distinguished service as scholar, teacher, and public servant," Dean Grirswold of the Law School has announced...