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...settlement of the Club 100 racial discrimination issue, offered on Monday by the Cambridge Civic Committee, received practically complete acceptance by the University-wide Committee on Discrimination as it met last night to consider its future course of action...
...settlement reached by the Cambridge Civic Unity Committee and the management of the Club 100 depends for its effectiveness as an anti-discriminatory device upon the good intention of the club management to observe the spirit of the agreement. For within the actual wording of the document there are abundant loopholes which will allow the Club 100 to continue its policy of operating ostensibly as a private club with restricted membership but actually admitting anyone of Caucasion descent...
...charged with desertion by his 61-year-old, home-loving wife, Margaret, after nearly 43 years of marriage. They had been separated for the past three years; everything was pretty well arranged now, and there would probably be no shouting in the courtroom. Mrs. Mayer would get a cash settlement-much more, said her attorney, than the $2,000,000 one tipster guessed...
...black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City settlement-house art classes, had obviously been painted for fun. The best of them will be sent to Paris in May, for an international festival of children's painting...
...book, by Craig Gilbert '47, is an implausible version of the Pilgrim settlement in New England. Starting with a scene aboard ship, the story winds its way through the landing and establishment of camp; the plot thickens as Myles Standish goes in search of food and his sailors in quest of Indian squaws. All this causes the Mayflower women to go on a love strike, the men countering by importing a large shipment of Indian girls of every shape and size. The necessities of history force author Gilbert to reconcile the colonizers eventually, but not before he firmly establishes...