First Negro Cabinet Wife Is Professor of Speech Therapy
Frances Lewine reports Mrs. Robert C. Weaver, the first Negro Cabinet wife and a professor of speech therapy, voices concern over how poor everyday speech among children risks reinforcing racial stereotypes. She travels on Ford Foundation funding to Southern Negro colleges to study and improve diction and conversation, urging teachers to act as speech teachers and noting the impact on Job Corps recruits and future careers.
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Frances Lewine Washington
Robert C. Weaver
Brooklyn College
Elia Iaith Weaver
Fla
Huntington
W.va
Weaver
Johnson
White House
Winston Salem, N.C
Weavers Talk Roots and Rites of Black Taxi Bosses
Mrs. Weaver recalls a childhood with a taxi fleet and a brother Hampton Haith as Safe Bus Co. business manager. She and her husband hold doctorates, he in economics and she in clinical speech therapy. They read, travel, and discuss politics amid Washington life and a Ford Johnson campaign.
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Hampton Haith
Safe Bus Co
Ibus
Weavers
Northwestern University
Mr. Johnson
Daily Crossword Puzzle Clue List From The Record
Puzzle clues and fragments scattered across across a historic page, listing many across and down hints. Readable names and terms include geographic and organizational references, with entries like “City of Afri c2” and “Metal water rhinat” embedded within the damaged text.
Exhumation Of Two Bodies Completed In Milwaukee
At Graceland Cemetery a court ordered exhumation of 57 year old Mrs. Hilda Porth and her 17 year old daughter Kathy. Robert Porth, 56, is indicted in Winston Salem NC for first degree murder in the Virginia death. An autopsy will be conducted by Milwaukee County medical examiner Dr. L J Van Hecke with Dr. Geoffrey Mann observing.
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Milwaukee Wy
North Carolina
Graceland Cemetery
Hilda Porth
Virginia
Kathy
L. J. van Hecke
Milwaukee County
Geoffrey Mann
Reet
Whole Town Going Ape Wedding Date Set
The Baltimore campaign to collect 24 million trading stamps for Sylvia the gorilla continues with a Holland dealer joining. About 250 books collected in a week. 50,000 stamps mailed from states, a local radio station adding 20,000 daily. The wedding is on Valentine's Day with a DJ as best man and a honeymoon prize. Groom arrives Feb 12 at Friendship International Airport. Formal dress is optional.
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Holland
Kim Riley
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Baltimore
Arthur Watson
Ramnan
Egeee
Friendship International
Pan American Airways
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