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...Slave Ship (Twentieth Century-Fox). Last known U. S. slave ship was The Wanderer, built as a yacht, the fastest craft flying the burgee of the New York Yacht Club. In 1857 her owner, John D. Johnson, sold her to a fellow club-member, W. C. Corrie. New York yachtsmen did not know much about Corrie. He was a mysterious but affable gentleman, amply provided with funds, who professed an interest in the finer points of yachting and declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted...
...Houston. Tex., Richard Carruthers, who says he is a former slave and 100 years old, took out a license to marry Luvena Dixon...
With Arthur Fiedler conducting, the Pop Concert season will open tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Symphony Hall. The program is as follows: Cortege from "Mlada" Rimsky-Korsakov Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark Minuet Beizoni Russian Dances A. Tcherepnin Austrian Peasant Music Schonherr Festivo from "Scenes historiques" Sibelius Marche Slave Tchaikovsky "Tales from the Vienna Woods" Strauss "The Way You Look Tonight" Kern (Orchestral paraphrase by L. Caillet) The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
...educational world an assistant deanship at Harvard is certainly an advantageous position for a young man to hold. An office in University Hall gives him a chance to try his talents at administrative work, leaving him at the same time the opportunity to teach without becoming a slave to research. He is an educator in the real sense of the word, having a hand in shaping the early training and planning the programs of thousands of students, and not depending solely on his ability to teach in his own specialized field to make his influence felt on the generations that...
Considered one of the finest examples of African art, the fourteenth century bronze portrait of a princess of Benin, fabulous and now virtually extinct small nation of the West African slave coast, was presented to the Fogg Museum by Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., of New York City...