Word: bookers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editorial director and replaced by his assistant Richard Dinsdale. But in the end, the paper's survival hinges on how long Press Lord King wants to keep it going, and he does not seem to have his heart in it. That problem was summed up by Christopher Booker in Spectator: "Few magazines or newspapers have ever really been successful unless they have begun with one or two men who really, in their hearts, wanted to say something -and really wanted to make a paper...
...worth. Bassist-Pianist Mingus' debt to Ellington is most apparent in Invisible Lady where both mood and the stylish trombone solo of Jimmie Knepper are evocative of the Duke at his best. Peggy's Blue Skylight features Mingus on piano and a haunting tenor sax solo by Booker Ervin...
...nearly a year, and it makes compelling if painful listening. Thomas Jefferson describes the differences between blacks and whites as he sees them. During the Civil War, a South Carolina white woman nervously describes her slaves "going about in their black masks," sensing freedom in the air. John Brown, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Father Divine, Walter White are all heard from, but the most moving lines of all are those of a teenager, Elizabeth Eckferd, recalling the day she went to Central High School in Little Rock...
...bestselling novelist has been pocketing a few measly pence in the pound, and dash it, Ian Fleming decided it was time to take action. For a $280,000 tax-free capital gain, he sold 51% of the royalties from his James Bond thrillers to Britain's Booker Bros., a worldwide investment group. Though "all of me from the neck up" is now in Bondage to Booker, Fleming could at least afford a spot of Beluga caviar. Said the new boss, Sir Jock Campbell: "We've acquired a business with minimal management worries...
...DuBois was beaten so severely that she never fully recovered. Dr. DuBois had seen Negro poverty close at hand, first in Philidelphia, then in Georgia. These things made him turn away from the idealistic optimism that he had learned at Harvard and led him to reject the conciliation of Booker T. Washington...