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...black cigars supercharged the sticky heat of the basement cafeteria in Chicago's Wabash Avenue Y.M.C.A. A well-dressed, pipe-smoking Negro rose to address the third annual conference of the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association. His 75 listeners, full of fried chicken and Pepsi-Cola, were still wrought up about the issue of their press and their race...
...from the hard, dark Jacaranda wood she likes to use, is the first South American sculpture ever bought for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection. The subject, St. Francis of Assist, is almost as closely related to Latin America as the wood from which it was wrought. The religious order of Franciscans, founded by this simplest and most lovable of saints, was identified with the Spanish conquest of America from the second voyage of Columbus...
...next few decades Peabody Museum made great strides, being particularly indebted to the rough, salty New England ship masters of the period, who, through their trading packets, tea clippers and whaling ships, brought home souvenirs wrought by peoples and races in the East and South Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again...
...cannot, is that there is no real argument. An enormous forward step is being taken: placing air officers in command of Navy task forces in which air strength predominates-and most U.S. task forces are now organized around air power. The needs of the war had wrought the change: the task forces which intercepted the Japs in the Coral Sea and smashed at the Marshalls were built around carriers because of the need for air striking power. A typical task force in 1942 warfare consists of one or more carriers, two to four heavy cruisers, one to two light cruisers...
Speaking over the Crimson Network last night Dean A. Chester Hanford discussed in detail many of the changes that had been wrought in various phases of the University life as a result of Pearl Harbor, especially those concerned with the summer term, Freshman in the House, and summer employment...