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Albright looks and sounds like a latter-day Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve on the verge of uttering her famous line, "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy night." Go get 'em, Big Mama! ERROL ALLAN Guntersville, Alabama...
...DIED. VIVIAN MALONE JONES, 63, whose battle to enroll at the University of Alabama resulted, on June 11, 1963, in a now-infamous "stand in the school-house door" by then Governor George Wallace; in Atlanta. Before stepping aside to allow Jones and fellow black student James Hood entry, Wallace railed against the federally-ordered integration. Yet despite the pervasive racism that led Hood to transfer, Jones managed to thrive, becoming the school's first African-American graduate in 1965. Jones, who received an apology from Wallace in 1986, later said she "had a responsibility ... to myself, my family...
...wifebeater-wearing Steppers—had collaborated to raise money for such a cause. More than 1,000 tickets were sold, though exact attendance had not been tallied by yesterday night. The idea arose just days after the storm whipped through New Orleans and parts of Mississippi and Alabama on August 29, prompting massive flooding and violent lawlessness in a city that the groups would later pay tribute to. At the start of the show, Louis Armstrong’s voiced scratched the dark silence: “Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans...
...hard on the ankles and such.”He also helps organize Black Alumni Weekend, an annual celebration sponsored by the Office of the President and the Black Students Association.As a regional admissions officer, Evans has covered locales as diverse as Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Ontario, parts of Connecticut, Southern California, and Boston.Today, he oversees eastern Kansas, Springfield, Ill., suburban Washington, D.C., part of New York City, and Cambridge.Fitzsimmons lauds Evans in particular for his informative and engaging information sessions.“He is very funny, but imparts huge amounts of information at the same time...
...corrupt politics of the past," he told TIME recently. "I think those who are bashing me and questioning my leadership skills are usually unhappy with the new way of doing things." Nagin has been doing things differently for quite some time. Raised poor in New Orleans, he attended Alabama's Tuskegee University on a baseball scholarship, earned an M.B.A. from Tulane University and worked his way up the ranks to vice president at cable giant Cox Communications by turning around its flagging New Orleans cable system. After hearing his son complain about New Orleans' dearth of career opportunities, Nagin entered...