Powell Chooses Negro Identity In Defining Legacy
In Washington Powell discusses his self description as a Negro by choice and explains his Harlem upbringing, mixed heritage doubts, and decision to align with the Negro race. The piece traces his career from Abyssinian Church leadership to a controversial, long congressional tenure and his use of the Powell Amendment to fight racial discrimination.
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New York City
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Abyssinian Baptist Church
America
Manhattan
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Young Powell
Colgate University
Columbia
The
Isabel Washington
Miss Scott
Yvette Diago
San Juan
Yvette
Uncle Miltie Wild About Film Comedy
HAL BOYLE reports in New York on Milton Berle predicting a record box office for Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Berle discusses script pay, co stars, his 50 years in show business, reduced cigar habit, live club nights, and a 30 year NBC contract worth six figures yearly.
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Milton Berle
William Rose
Stanley Kramer
Berle
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Ethel Merman
Sid Caesar
Dorothy Provine
Edie Adams
Mickey Rooney
Jonathan Winters
Jimmy Durante
Miltie
Top Banana
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NBC
Seventeen Oklahoma Men Enlist in U S Army Reserve
Seventeen southwest Oklahoma men have enlisted in the U S Army Reserve and will undergo six months of basic training. Notable names include Charley John Wilson J Michael Jerone McCollum Charles Darwin Smiddy Cleveland Lonzo Cotton Leonard Lee Farrow Calvin Don Garrett Danny Ray Howard Samuel F Mains and eight from Ardmore plus one from Oklahoma City. Howard reports to Fort Polk May 21 with others awaiting orders.
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U. S. Army Reserve
Lowell Walker
Lawton
Charley John Wilson
J. Michael Jerone McCollum
Charles Darwin Smiddy
Cleveland Lonzo Cotton
Duncan
Leonard Lee Farrow
Binger
Calvin Don Garrett
Tuttle
Danny Ray Howard
Fletcher
Samuel F. Mains
Altus
Ardmore
Oklahoma City
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Howard
Fort Polk
George D. Keathley Reserve Center
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School Lunchroom Diners Scarce In Meningitis scare
In Marlow Oklahoma the lunchroom is only about a third full after a worker contracted spinal meningitis. Superintendent E. B. Turley reports attendance below normal and says the patient, Mrs. Jessie Jones, 51, is improving but critical. No new cases have been reported and health officials expect low risk of further illness.
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E. B. Turley
Turley
Jessie Jones
Oklahoma City
Health Department
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