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...soul"). Disk-and TV-wise, however, the fate of the turned-on Senator rests with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which has politely told him that since he is now a big-time performer-his take, an estimated 220 per album, equals Adam Clayton Powell's recording royalty-he must join up and pay $500 in initiation fees and dues...
...provides a better answer to that question than Edward Bennett Williams, 46, the country's top criminal lawyer. Williams has passionately defended ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell, to say nothing of assorted Communists, spies and murderers. Williams helped Jimmy Hoffa beat a bribery rap, got Tax Evader Frank Costello out of prison, opened the mails to the peephole magazine Confidential. Happily for moralists, he is also a loser on occasion: he failed to foil Senate censure of the late Joe McCarthy, and last week he lost the case of Bobby Baker...
Died. Graham A. Barden, 70, Democratic Congressman from North Carolina's Third District (southeast part of the state) and predecessor of Adam Clayton Powell as chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, a dedicated obstructionist who during 13 terms in Congress never wavered in his support of states rights and segregation, took pride in blocking education and labor legislation ("I never knew the Republic to be endangered by a bill that was not passed," he once said), notably in 1956 when he killed a $1.6 billion school construction bill; of cancer; in New Bern...
...poor parish priest," as he likes to call himself, was already gloating over his anticipated new riches. "I'll be the first clergyman in the history of the world to get a gold platter," exulted ostracized Congressman Adam Clayton Powell last week on the Bahamian isle of North Bimini. That hardly amounted to the "fantastic" disclosure promised for his first press conference since Congress last month decided not to seat him pending an investigation of his free-wheeling way with public funds. But then Powell never before had made a hot-selling record. According to Jubilee Records...
McCormack's most palpable failure so far this session came in his handling of the Adam Clayton Powell affair. Deeply averse to any break with precedent, he unsuccessfully resisted both the Democratic-caucus move to strip Powell of his committee chairmanship, and the full House action to take away his seat pending a formal investigation. McCormack's stand particularly irritated young, liberal Congressmen, who have been increasingly unhappy about the Speaker's intractably traditionalist position. What McCormack failed to consider was that many a colleague was under heavy pressure from constituents to chastise the flamboyant Negro Congressman...