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Please tell the poetry specialist who gave us the above that his "find" is a portion of one of the most famous poems ever written-known to Hitler, elementary school children to say nothing of Winston Churchill. The poem is entitled "If We Must Die,"* and the black poet is Claude McKay (1890-1948). Here is the complete poem...
Engaged. W. Averell Harriman, 79, negotiator with Communist powers, high-ranking Government official for four Democratic Administrations, and former Governor of New York; and Pamela Hayward, 51, British widow of Producer Leland Hayward and mother of Winston Churchill II by her earlier marriage to Sir Winston's son Randolph. It will be the third marriage for both...
...week's end there was almost as much antibusing activity in the courts as in the streets. The school board of Winston-Salem, N.C., asked a U.S. District Court to reconsider its order requiring the busing of more than half the city's 48,000 public school students. A delegation of parents from Pinellas County, Fla., showed up in Washington to ask Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to stay a district court busing order. In light of the Supreme Court's consistent record of upholding busing plans, there was only a dim chance that the appeals...
...Died. Winston Prouty, 65, maverick Republican Senator from Vermont; of cancer; in Boston. A flinty former smalltown mayor, Prouty served for eight years as Vermont's only Congressman before his election to the Senate in 1958. He was a political enigma to most of his colleagues, on the Hill. In 1969, for instance, Prouty provided a crucial pro-Administration vote in favor of the anti-ballistic missile system, then defied the White House by opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell the following year. He also advocated a guaranteed annual income...
Fighting Strikes. Donnahoe set out on a shopping spree and bought the Tampa Times and Tribune in Florida, the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel in North Carolina, as well as the Newark Evening News. Other acquisitions included a television station in Tampa and a cable-TV system in Fredericksburg, Va. Most of Media General's properties are profitable, but labor difficulties have dogged Donnahoe in Richmond and Newark...