Platters Earn Yet Hide Majority Of Wages Says Source
Exclusive tips reveal The Platters salary is $150 weekly per member with remaining earnings saved for six months and shared later. Zola Taylor buys a $17,000 LA home and the group gains fame with hits like The Great Pretender Only You The Magic Touch My Prayer. Other notes cover Re Vels dance craze The Stroll and Solomon Burke studio plans Apollo Records.
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NEW York
ANP
Mercury
Zola Taylor
Los Angeles
RCA Victor
Memphis
Tenn
Philly
Earl Bostic
Tulsa
Okla
Confidently Yours Hair Dye and Musical Musings in 1960s Scene
Irv and Sly, hair stylists in Philadelphia, dye Willie Jacksons hair white with a silver streak to match his Coupe DeVille. A West Coast promoter books Fats Domino through about 30 small towns in Northern California where Negroes rarely stop. Jimmy Smiths Tenderly recorded mood noted as a sad instrumental for wakes. Sugar Ray Robinson is described as a Bible expert. Organist Bill Doggett drinks orange juice, not alcohol, when at nightclubs.
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Philadelphia
Irv
Sly
Willie Jackson
Fats Domino
California
Jimmy Smith
Sugar Ray Robinson
Bill Doggett
Bill
Capitol
Louisiana bans racially mixed competition bill endorsed by governor
Governor Earl Long signed a bill prohibiting racially mixed competition in Louisiana, a move described as setting the state’s progress back by about a century. Roy Milton hosts large picnics for his band and families in Los Angeles twice yearly, highlighting the musician’s social scene. Elvis Presley remains active in the public eye.
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Louisiana
Earl Long
Pelican
Roy Milton
Los Angeles
Elvis
Presley
Bethune-Cookman College Receives Major Bequest
Daytona Beach Florida April announcement reports Bethune-Cookman College receiving a bequest of 50409 in securities and 1816 dollars in cash from Perry A. Sharpe of Claremont California. The funds will create the Maud Ward Sharpe Memorial Fund with income from investments used by the college. President Richard V. Moore notes the gift as a surprise, with prior small contributions from Sharpe. Bethune-Cookman, founded by Dr Mary McLeod Bethune, honors her legacy.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
ANP
Bethune-Cookman College
Richard V. Moore
Perry A. Sharpe
Claremont
Calif
Maud Ward Sharpe
Moore
Sharpe
Bethune-Cookman
Mary McCleod Bethune
United States
Bi racial group seeks harmony in Kentucky project
Olive Hill Kentucky ANP reports a mixed group of white and Negro youths left South Carolina after threats and cross burnings at Mather Academy. They joined a Methodist sponsored summer work project in Kentucky to promote interracial cooperation. Fourteen youths relocated, four white girls six white boys and four Negro boys. They will finish the project this week and then return home.
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Olive Hill
ANP
South Carolina
Methodist Church
Kentucky
Camden
S. C
Mather Academy
The Best Known Mystic in the U S A Comes to Miami
A long running Miami mystic now based at 2118 NW 62nd Street draws crowds from all walks of life. He promises to reveal truths, urging trains buses cars and even walking travelers to attend. Delays are dangerous and listeners are urged to form a party and go now.
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Miami
N.W
62Nd Street
Florida
Fife
62Nd St
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