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...Harvard on Registration Day for Freshmen, we began queueing up very early in front of Memorial Hall. I was bout a third of the way down the line. In the front was a Negro fellow with wonderful yellow sunglasses, except that I did not think they were wonderful then, being uptight (a word I learned later) and trying very hard to be a Harvard freshman. First it was sideburns --- Marty claims he was the first one in the freshman class with sideburns, but Marty, who is married now, always claimed such things. Then, it was wire-rimmed glasses...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: A History of Our Class | 6/30/1969 | See Source »

JACKIE McLEAN, 'BOUT SOUL (Blue Note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema, Books: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...franchising chain headed by Brady Keys, retired professional football star. Zebra's admen are not the least self-conscious about using heavy Negro dialect in their ads. Sample from an All-Pro radio commercial: "Good-lookin', don't shout. Go 'head on. Tell me 'bout it." League sees his agency's future in aiming ads at low-income groups of all colors, who together spend about $100 billion a year. Because black agencies concentrate on the ghetto, he figures, they have the best experience in selling to all the poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: The Black Man In the Gray Flannel Suit | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...Well, I didn't play with him until the 40's. But I started listenin' to Drag when I was only a little bitty fella.' He didn't play no bass, then. He played guitar and sang creole songs. He had a little group of 'bout three or four pieces. Had a fella slappin' a washboard" -- George made a washboard-slapping gesture--"and a fella on violin, and Drag. They would go all around to little picnics, and backyard parties, and wakes and weddin's. Wherever they could find food and liquor." He smiled...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: 'I Had to Make Music Like That, Too' | 5/21/1969 | See Source »

...worry 'bout that, man. They never bother with musicians...

Author: By Thomas A. Sancton, | Title: New Orleans Jazz Funeral Pounds Gaily for the Dead | 5/20/1969 | See Source »

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