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Jackie Robinson honored
Diabetes
has thrown a
knockdown pitch at Jackie
Robinson.
He can see nothing at all
out of his right eye and the
sight in his left eye is only
fa ir, according to his wife,
Rachel.
Typically, Jackie Robinson
asks for nobody’ s concern,
nobody's pity, nobody’s bleed
ing heart.
" It 's not that bad." he said
maki ng 1 lght of the w h o le
DR. JEFFREY
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M O D E R N LIFELIKE
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thing while obliging a lady with
his autograph recently at a
local
midtown
restaurant
where the U/S. Virgin Islands
government honored him for
his contribution and unselfish
efforts in developing oppor
tunities for Black athletes.
"See, I still see good enough
to w rite my nam e."
A t 53, Jackie Robinson cer
tainly isn't an old man.
N or does he look like one
despite the fact his hair is
practically pure snow white
by now.
Maybe he’ s having some
trouble seeing but there isn’t
anything wrong with his hear
ing. That’s still perfect.
So he leaned a bit forward
in his seat and caught every
word that was said. Robin
son purposely was not given
a place on the dais.
The reason he wasn't, was
because they made the affair
for Jackie Robinson something
like the old "T h is Is Your
L ife ” show. Only instead of
Ralph Edwards conducting it,
Roger Kahn, author of best
seller, "T he Boys of Sum
m e r," in which Robinson Is
included, did it and it was
felt Jackie could get much
more out of the proceedings
seated In audience rather than
up on the dais.
Some of Robinson’s old
teammates were there. Like
Joe Black, Ralph Branca,
Sandy
Amoros and Clyde
Sukeforth.
Some of his old rivals were
there, too. Like Bobby Thom
son. There were others also
like Buck Leonard, a fellow
Hall of Fam er; A1 Jackson,
and
Joe Christopher and
Valm y Thomas, two form er
big leaguers from the Virgin
Islands.
Kahn began by saying Jackie
Robinson was in Cairo, Ga.,
during the Spanish flu epide
m ic.
Then he introduced
Jackie’s older brother. M att,
who had been a fine sprinter
in his time and once finished
second to Jesse Owens.
"M o s t of you know my
brother through baseball,”
saxl M an Robinson. ” 1 wish
you could have seen him on
the gridiron.
He did some
things that were unbelievable,
I also remember being at a
track meet one tim e. Jackie
came by and he was still in
his baseball uniform. He had
never broad-jumped before
txit 1 said to him 'c ’mon, get
in the broad jump.* He had
no practice or anything but
he won. Theydiaqualified him
though because he hadn’t been
weighed beforehand or re
gistered in properly.”
Clyde Sukeforth and Ralph
Branca came next.
Sukey
told about how Branch Rickey,
the late ex-general manager
of the Brooklyn Dodgers, had
sent him to scout Robinson
and find out " i f he can throw
from the hole," while Branca
talked about "the greatest
catch" he ever made, leaning
cut of the Dodgers's dugout
In St. Louis to grab Robinson
and prevent him from falling
In while Jackie was going
after a high foul ball.
Then came Bobby Thom
son's turn.
They asked him to tell what
it was like playing against
Jackie Robinson.
"Nobody remembers but 1
broke in the same year as
Jackie," he said. " I was with
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Are you feeling in a rut?
Does the world seem to be
passing you by? Would you
like to do something different
with your life but you just don't
know how to get started?
JAMES EARL JONES stars as Douglass Dilman, in the title role of Paramount Pictures' "The
M an ," portraying a Black senatorwhoaccidentally accedes to the Presidency of the United States
An ABC C irc le F ilm and a Lorunar Production. "T h e M an" is fcesed on the novel by Irving W a l
lace; starring James E a rl Jones, M artin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres. W illiam W in
dom and Barbara Rush; directed by Joseph Sargent; story and screenplay by Rod Serling; produced
by Lee Rich; released by Paramount Pictures.
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Jersey City when he was with
M ontreal, so I teamed to hate
him e a rly .”
Laughter greeted Thom
son’ s rem ark. He laughed,
too, and so did Robinson, pay
ing close attention in the au
dience.
"Jackie was always beating
us, even when he was with
M o n treal," Thomson went on.
“ He'd beat us with four h it s
a game and I remember this
one time 1 was playing third
base and we got him hung up
between second and third. I
was determined not only to tag
him but put the ball on him
good for all the grief he had
been giving us. As I went to
tag him, typical of him. Jack
dropped to the ground and I
tripped over him. Next thing
1 knew I looked up and he was
on third base."
By far me most articulate
speaker was Joe Black, the
one-time ace reliever for the
Dodgers. Black had come in
for this get-together all the
way from Phoenix, A r lz .
Black hasanexecunveposi
tion with a Bus company and
he said he got the job for three
reasons.
" I got my job because I'm
dark. I played baseball and 1
had a national reputation,"
Black said. " I wouldn’t have
had any such reputation if
Jackie Robinson hadn’t opened
the door for me. if Jackie
Robinson had failed, tfie door
never would’ve been opened.
I wouldn’t have had my house
with the plot of grass around
it.
I ’d be like my brothers
and sisters working in a fac
to ry."
Jackie Robinson listened to
it all and bowed his head from
time to tim e.
F o r some inexplicable rea
son he was never called upon
to speak.
" I t was wonderful," he said
when it was all over. " I ’m
a little disappointed about only
one thing. I would've like to
say a few words, to say
thanks."
In a way Jackie Robinson
never really had to.
His eyes said it for him.
AFRICA AND ITS EXPLO R
ERS: MOTIVES. METHLX1S
AND IM P A C T . Edited by Rob
e rt I . Rotherg. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University
Press. 1970, pp. 351. >12.95.
AFRICA AND ITS EXPLO R
ERS:
MOTIVES, METHODS
AND IM PACT is a collection
of essays about nine explor
ers - B a r t h , Livingstone,
Burton. Speke, Baker. Kohlfs,
Stanley, Cameron and Thom
son - who played a major role
in opening up Africa to the
Western W orld. The esseya
in the book reappraise their
accomplishments in the light
of recent scholarship and
place their actions in an A fr i
can, rather than a European,
context. These essays a r e s
fa r cry from traditional w rit
ings that have omitted altoge
ther the ways in which parti
cular explorers coped with
Africans and Africa, their
methods, and their behavior
among and toward Africans.
The w riters of the essays
came to the concluslon(usual-
ly ommlrted by previous au
thors) that the explorers de
pended on the guidances of Af
ricans and Arabs. They fol
lowed oft-tramped paths to
predetermined, locally w ell-
known objectives, and "m ade"
discoveries whichwere. near
ly always, mere confirmations
of information available in the
interior it not lncoastalentre
pots. Therefore, if it had not
been for the Africans w ho
headed and helped to organize
the explorers journeys, they
would not have teen success
ful. After a ll, it was the A f
ricans who spoke the indi
genous languages, followed tie
long - existing
and usually
well-m arked trails with ease,
and coped with life in the
brush; in general, then, they
w ere completely at home in
what the explorers no doubt
viewed as a hostile environ
ment. These Africans were
professional guides as well as
porters and sometimes sol
diers upon whom the explor
ers had to rely for survival.
The explorers could, as Af
ricans usually could not. place
their own particular discov
eries into a largerw hole. T te
explorers, as practical geo
graphers, therefore pushed
back the frontiers of Ignor
ance and added em pirically to
the store of world knowledge
at a tune when only first-hand
observation by literate men
could
satisfy the curious.
Hence, they did perform a vi
tal Intellectual and dissemi
nate role even if, in a narrow
sense, they cannot te said to
have explored Africa unaided
or to have made freshdlacov-
eries - of a synthetic kind - of
their own.
Some of the essays are bio
graphical and some geograph
ical and they attempt toassess
the ways in which each ex
p lo rer encountered Africans
and Africa - their methods and
their hehavior among and to
ward Africans. The w rltera
rightfully contend (s point ttet
is often overlooked) that west
ern explorers had less Impact
on Africa and African society
than is usually supposed.
They altered the lives of Eu
ropeans more then Africans.
What tten dal the explorers
contribute to the sum of A fr i
ca's history? Obviously, more
fo r the expansion of Europe
then in immediately changing
the internal development of
A frica, Its physical features,
drainage patterns, ami geo
graphical complexity - which,
no doubt, was the explorers'
immediate, if not greatest
contribution and which made
these unknown areas more ac
cessible to evangelical, colo
nial and m artial penetration
by whites of several countries.
One of tie most interesting
and timely points brought out
in this collection is that all of
the explorers mentioned, ex
cept perhaps. Barth and L iv
ingstone, appear to have teen
Infected to a greater or lesser
degree with the mlc rotes of
prejudice. They all consid
ered the Africans as mere
'heathens."
The book also
points out that they were
hopelessly
romantic men.
mesmerized
by Immediate
psychic rewards, the quest of
grandeur and the possibility of
self-redemption. Therefore,
of necessity, the authors had
to read tetween the lines of
each explorer's writings.
One of the shortcomings of
the book is that it could have
teen more representative by
including several explorers -
P ark, Burce.Clapperton.Cat-
I I le, Lander - who made signi
ficant "discoveries'' in A fri
ca.
T te book is excellent for
students of African History
who want to get a new insight
on an assessment of the ex
plorers’ motives and methods.
Lech essay Is well footnoted
end documented end the book
contains a cornpretensive and
e x h a u s tiv e
bibliography.
Photographs of each explorer
and maps of his journeys ac
company the text. AFRICA
AND ITS EXPLORERS: M O -
IIV E S , METHODS AND IM
PACT is one book that must be
read by every serious student
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as though II w ill be some time
(•fo re another book of thia
magnitude is published be
cause very few scholarly his
torical works dare offer psy
choanalytical and deductive
inesrpretatlona.
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The Moss Hart - George
Kaufman comedy "You Can't
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ter stage next week as the
PSU Summer Stock Company
presents the final play of the
season at the Coaster Theater
in Cannon Beach.
Performances for this 1936
P u litze r P rize winning classic
are set fo r August 24-27 and
31 and September 1-4 at Can
non Beach. Curtain time is
8:30 p jn .
"You Can’t Take It With
You" Is the story of the de
lightfully Insane Sycamore
fam ily of New York, a some
what unusual household where
"you do as you like, no ques
tions asked.”
The household Includes an
ex-Russian Grand Duchess
earning her living as a wai
tress, an eccentric Grandpa
Sycamore who runs an illegal
printing press and a ballet
Instructor.
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as tie "m ost sympathetic
commedy," jenned by the
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clude "The Men Who Came
To D in ner," "George Wash
ington Slept H e re ,” and "The
American W ay."
Featured in major roles in
the Cannon leach production
are Cindy Peterson and Scon
P a rk e r as the two young
"sane”
lovers Alice and
Tony, Doug Soeshe as Grandpa
Sycamore, Pat Torelle as
DePlna. Ave M arie Hanlon
as Mother Penelope, Melissa
Knotts as daughter E s s e , and
David Dochow as her huaband
Paul Sycamore.
Jack Featherlngill dlrecta.
Tickets are available at tie
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students and > .75 for children.
Additional performances of
"You Can’ t Take it With You"
are planned at the the PSU
Lincoln Hall Auditorium on
Septem ter 29 and 30 and Oc
tober 6 and 7.
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ative Wallace Deyanpert, while vacationing in Portland.
About 2500 service men and
women are sworn in and re
ceive their orders at the
Armed Services Examining
and Entrance Station in Port
land each month.
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unteers make every effort to
contact all persona being pro
cessed with a cookie and a
smile to assure them there
w ill be a USO nearby where-
ever they are stationed . . . in
die United States or In a
foreign land.
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Tualatin Valley
begins season
The Tualatin Valley Players
w ill open their sixth season
F riday. September 18, with a
repeat performance of last
season’ s sellout hit, THE ODD
CO UPLE, A total of seven
plays is planned for 1972-73
Including BUTTERFLIES A RE
FR EE, THE OWL AND THE
PUSSYCAT,
ONE F L E W
OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.
LAST OF THE RED HOT LO V
ERS. THE PANTASTIKS. and
STALAG 17. An optional eighth
ahow la being considered.
The T V Players, who pre
sent a variety of productions
at the Old Nut Loft In Aloha,
Oregon, were organized five
years ago to bring little thea
tre to the Washington County
community. President Gene
Sm all, a resident of Hillsboro,
states, "W e select plays to
bring people in to the theatre
and also to give our players
experience in many types of
theatre from comedy to trage
dy. Small encourages anyone
with an Interest In any aspect
of theatre to participate, whe
ther behind the scenes or on
stage.
Season tickets are available
for >12.00, a savlnga of >5 DO
and possibly >7.50 If theeightb
play is presented. Individual
tickets are >2.50 per play.
To order a season ticket or
to obtain a calendar of play and
audition datea w rite the TV
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