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...SNCC field secretaries stood before the shopping cart and filled their arms with food. One was Avery Williams, Alabama-born. Another was Chico Neblett from Carbondale, Illinois Both had left college to work for SNCC...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: "SNCC--The New Abolitionists" | 10/22/1964 | See Source »

...Vice Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, 52, new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, succeeding Sharp. Alabama-born Tommy Moorer, known in Pentagon corridors as "the man you always send for when you have a tough job," is already an odds-on favorite with many a top officer to become Chief of Naval Operations one day. "Hell," says one, "you could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Navy's New Team | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...broken wrist, and "a few horns in the gut"), but he carefully balances caution against the daring needed to win. "I know they're always going to have a rodeo next week," he smiles. "I'm not going to do anything to get myself hurt." Alabama-born, Big Jim has been bull-dogging almost 20 years, now grows cotton on a farm near Dallas. He tends it carefully in good years and leaves it readily when the sun-withered crop is poor. "They say they can tell how bad my cotton crop is by how much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rodeos: The Bulldogger | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

When a Hollywood type says, "I see you've been to Sebring," he doesn't mean the sports-car races. He is talking about Jay Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who has become dictator of the nape-line, tyrant of the sideburn, and keeper of the keys to baldpate for a list of notables that begins with Frank Sinatra and ends with Bobby Darin (they have a similar problem) and includes Milton Berle, Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Handsome Is | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Gospelers | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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