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Among the reviews this issue were Floating, Troy's senior thesis, and By the Light of my Father's Smile, Walker's latest work...
Also on Saturday were the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Sophomore Greg Walker dove well, earning a score of 573.05 points, and he edged out second-place junior Ed Hefferon from UMass by 10 points. Freshman Erik Frost turned in a notable fourth place with 466.65 points, and freshman Amias Moore Gerety earned eighth place with 337.95. Walker, Harvard's lone scorer in the three-meter diving, won that event as well with 693.15 points, this time out-doing Hefferon by 100 points...
...could write a political history of African Americans based on changes in hairstyles, ranging from kinky and short to kinky and long, from greased and "pressed" (with a stocking cap) to straightened, waved or jerry-curled. But it was Madam C.J. Walker, as the historian Rayford W. Logan maintains, who "made straight hair 'good hair,'" and in doing so, made a fortune for herself and a decent standard of living for a work force of "agents" that numbered 20,000 in the U.S. and the Caribbean...
...diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third husband, a newspaper sales agent named Charles Joseph Walker, and with him established a hair-care business that made brilliant use of advertising in the growing number of black newspapers...
...Walker had invented her own "hair growing" product, she claimed, after "a big black man appeared to me [in a dream] and told me what to mix up for my hair." Some of the remedy was grown in Africa, she would recount, "but I sent for it, mixed it up, put it on my scalp, and in a few weeks my hair was coming in faster than it had even fallen...