Weekend Pickup excerpt highlights race, integration views
Irving Kupcinet presents John Griffin who darkened his skin and lived as a Negro in the South and who is blind. Griffin says being Negro in the South is worse while the blind can adjust. A letter from Arkansas calls for integration and critiques NAACP and local leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kup
Irving Kupcinet
John Griffin
South
Griffin
Texas
Mexico
Arkansas Gazette
Bruce Bennett
NAACP
Arkansas
A Memory of the Tenth Man by Ralph McGill
A review of Paddy Chayefsky’s The Tenth Man closed by Equity in New York. Set in a poor synagogue turned into a hall, the play follows aging congregants awaiting morning prayers and a looming crisis as an exorcism for a mentally disturbed granddaughter unfolds amid tensions with daughters in law.
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Ralph McGill
Equity
New York
Paddy Chayefsky
Foreman
Poreman
Watch On The POTOMAC by Robt. G. Spivack
Before the 1920 Republican nominating convention Warren G. Harding questions his stature in the race. His mentor Harry M. Daugherty dismisses the idea that any president is a guaranteed giant, arguing greatness is shaped by wartime conditions. The column muses on the Democratic convention in Los Angeles and the uncertain virtues of the hopefuls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
By Robt. G. Spivack
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Warren G. Harding
Harry M. Daugherty
Harding
Daugherty
Los Angeles
Interview with John Griffin on race and disguise in the Deep South
The interview details Griffin, a white author, living as a Negro for four weeks in Alabama Georgia Louisiana and Mississippi to study economic coercion and segregation. He describes hostile treatment pervasive racism threats to safety and the impact on his identity and views.
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Corpus Christi
Southwest Writers’ Conference
John Howard Griffin
Griffin
Deep South
The
Observer
South
Mansfield
Texas
Sepia Magazine of
Fort Worth
New Orleans
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Atlanta
Sobriety Test Phrase Tests Witty Claim
A playful quip asks if drinking has altered style and spelling, implying a sober check of wit over drunken affect. The line uses humor to suggest sophistication is shown more by language than by liquor.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gordon Cobbledick
Dick Scholem
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Massillon
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Texas Observer
Beatrice Bartlett and
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