Word: abyssinians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other groups belong with the best: > The Alex Bradford Singers take their name from a remarkable musician and an outstanding composer: Bradford's Too Close to Heaven has sold more than a million records. Alabama-born, he is a gifted choir director (now at Newark's Great Abyssinian Church), and his gospel style is notable for its sophistication-particularly in its choral effects. In churches around the country, Bradford and the group shout out their wildly exultant songs while appropriately clad in flowing robes...
...Beirut one morning a fortnight ago, curiosity seekers poured into the Phoenicia Hotel for opening-day glimpses of an unconventional attraction: a large, strikingly modern room resplendent with teakwood ceiling, Abyssinian peacock-wood paneling and a floor of peacock-blue carpeting. Marveling, the visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody...
Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, whose frenetic schedule sometimes even includes a House roll call, was occupied on other fronts last week. In Manhattan, he launched a $450,000 expansion project for his Abyssinian Baptist Church, threatened three collections per Sunday service until the crash campaign was completed. In the capital for a radio interview the same day. Preacher Powell, who has been indicted but never convicted in a still pending income-tax-evasion case, exuded brotherly love for Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Said the House Education and Labor Committee chairman: "Mr. Hoffa has completely vindicated himself...
...years Leontyne Price sang "at least four Besses a week"-on Broadway, on the road and in Europe. She also married her Porgy, Baritone William Warfield, in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, with one of the Chisholm daughters attending and with six members of the cast as bridesmaids. Married for 8^ years, Leontyne and Warfield are kept apart most of the time by the demands of their careers...
Powell's Abyssinian Baptist Church. On hand to lead the obeisances were Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, eleven Congressmen, A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Walter Reuther's brother...