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...Manhattan's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. To make up for the fact that the late Mahalia Jackson had died last January before she could sing a promised benefit concert at the cathedral, 4,000 admirers came to hear Duke Ellington read the Bible and Clara Walker and Delores Hall sing gospel tunes. Then they prayed and clapped happily in time with the music. Said Rutgers University Professor Samuel Proctor, who delivered the sermon: "It was joyful music, a joyful occasion, as joyful as Mahalia's own life and music were...
...James and Clara Leonard of Sacramento, Calif., the crushing news was years in coming. Their son, Jimmy, now 15, seemed normal at birth, but then developed slowly. When he entered kindergarten, teachers urged the Leonards to take Jimmy and his younger brother, who was showing the same signs of mental dullness, to a hospital for evaluation. Doctors who examined the boys could find no sure cause for their condition. They had no doubts, however, about the diagnosis: both are "moderately" retarded and in need of long-term special training...
...buff-colored civic-center modern Santa Clara County Superior Courthouse, where the trial of Angela Davis is being held, is protected by a couple of recently erected 12-ft. chain-link fences, with gates guarded by about a dozen armed deputies. At 6 each morning, quiet, well-behaved crowds of young blacks, Chicanos and whites begin gathering at the gates to vie for the 42 courtroom seats reserved for the public. Angela Davis, her sister Fania Jordan and the defendant's team of three lawyers arrive shortly before 9, from a secret place where Miss Davis has been staying...
...case in example is Tim Chetin '73, who came to Harvard from Palo Alto High School and George Haines' Santa Clara Swim Club. Both the high school and the swim club were among the best in the nation while Tim swam for them and George Haines is internationally known for his teams, his Olympic coaching, and his world record holders. Swimming at Palo Alto and Santa Clara was an 11 month, 6 or 7 days of the week, twice a day, 8,000 to 12,000 yards a day routine...
When he was nine, Flip made his stage debut. The girl who was supposed to be Clara Barton in a school play became ill, and Flip, in the grand tradition of understudies, stepped in. No record survives of how his performance went over, but certainly the female role prophetically foreshadowed Geraldine. At about the same time, he sneaked into the old Mosque Theater in Newark to see the two comics who went on before the movie. "I knew then," he says, "that I had to make people laugh...