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...Brother) take on the near-heroic quality of a modern tragic Odyssey. Simple and idealistic, he hopes to become an educator, to help advance his people. He loves his college, has unquestioning respect for its famed Negro president and its millionaire Northern benefactors. He is sure that his slave grandfather must have been wrong when he laid down his deathbed formula for dealing with the whites: "Live with your head in the lion's mouth . . . Overcome 'em with yesses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they...
...grandson of an escaped slave, Dunn was born in a log house in Salem. New Jersey. From early childhood, he showed a great interest in art, which he "first studied from nature." While in primary school, he was taught draftsmanship and coloring by an artist friend. After he graduated from grammar school, his father, a Delaware River fisherman sent him to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia where he studied stone masonry. After this trade school, followed several years of training in a scattering of Philadelphia and Boston art schools. To finance this schooling. Dunn worked during the summer on farms...
Even though it is patently absurd to try to legislate freedom of press in a world that, at best, is half slave and half free, the United Nations has been trying to do just that for four years. Twice, U.N. press committees have come a cropper; their proposals would shackle the press rather than free it (TIME, March 10). Last week a third U.N. subcommission passed still another bootless plan. This time it was an "international code of ethics" for the press, drafted by a group of newsmen from all over the world-including the Russians. Sample provisions: "[Newsmen] should...
...final Truman message to Congress was notable for a prediction. If the Mutual Security program succeeds, it will be followed by the "ultimate decay of the Soviet slave world." As a goal, this ultimate decay is certainly preferable to the dream that the world can be brought into a delicate balance which will permit the "peaceful coexistence" of Communism and the systems which Communism is dedicated to destroy...
Lewis: If you are ever elected President and Joe Stalin asks you about the Taft-Hartley slave act, I don't know how you are going to explain...