Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon, Korea time, when a Soviet-built North Korean torpedo boat bore down on Pueblo. Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, 40, was not overly disturbed. Harassment is one of the hazards of electronic snooping, and Skipper Bucher (pronounced booker) had expected to be buzzed by MIGS and bugged by surface craft when he began a month-long tour off the North Korean coast nearly two weeks earlier...
...University since 1937; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. Told in 1940 by an Atlanta cop that he would be shot entering a whites-only area, Clement replied: "If I get shot, I'll get shot in the back." That brand of mettle led him to reject Booker T. Washington's philosophy that Negro education should be aimed at vocational skills; instead, he gave A.U. intellectual aims to make it the best of its kind...
Among the accomplished Negro players in the series are Booker T. Bradshaw '62 (already a highly gifted actor as a Harvard undergraduate), Roscoe Lee Browne, Gloria Foster, Ossie Davis, and Brock Peters. Bradshaw will have the main role in the November 19 drama about Charles Spaulding...
...into a river to wrestle it out and into the family larder. Glide Brown Jr. had no desire to spend his life in the pine flats "tim-timin' " (notching pine trees to collect the gum for turpentine). As soon as he graduated from Brewton's all black Booker T. Washington High School, where he played
Rustin replied, "It was inevitable that Booker T. Washington -- a man whose accomplishments are too often underrated -- be succeeded by Du Bois, and Du Bois by A. Phillip Randolph. So today, when Randolph says to me, 'Bayard, I just don't understand what these kids are saying today. I don't understand them. Do you?' I tell him, 'No, Phillip. But don't worry about it. You didn't understand Washington or Du Bois, and they didn't understand...