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...hustle and odd jobs, then began singing his own songs for his supper at an East Side night spot. That led to the Broadway revue, The Illustrators (1936), for which he wrote five songs. The show was a flop, but it earned him a Hollywood offer. With Hoagy Carmichael, he wrote Small Fry for Bing Crosby and Two Sleepy People for Bob Hope. Loesser later wrote both words and music for such hits as / Wish I Didn't Love You So; Baby, It's Cold Outside; On a Slow Boat to China and the ultra low-brow Bloop...
...some extent, the tone has been set by the black radicals. Speaking for the Black Panthers, Stokely Carmichael announced: "We believe in violence. I am using all the money I can raise to buy arms. It is now necessary to attack police stations and kill policemen." Despite such outbursts, there are some signs that other black leaders are developing a greater sense of reality about what can be accomplished through violence of word or deed; certainly the ghetto riots have been cooled. But a sense of reality is distinctly missing in many of the student protesters, for whom hate-filled...
...when the film "Huey" was shown. While the blacks in the audience erupted in applause at least six different times in response to statements made by the speakers in the film, the whites were noticeably silent and fidgety. As the main speakers in the film were Eldridge Cleaver, Stokeley Carmichael, and H. Rap Brown, the source of the applause--and the sentiment implicit in it--was not difficult to discover...
Nevertheless, I feel that it is necessary to point out that the article's reference to my views in relationship to Stokely Carmichael are seriously misrepresented. I would like to say unequivocally that I am a strong admirer of Stokely Carmichael and I believe your reference to militant implies the constant negative reaction that the white society makes of most black men who speak a frank truth...
...hope that my efforts at Freedom Industries can add to, in some small way, the efforts of Stokely Carmichael and others who see the shocking truth and are working in the best way they know how to change the condition of the black man in America. Archie R. Williams President, Freedom Industries...