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...workers have long failed to press for welfare benefits and other rights because of ignorance or fear of intimidation. But two of them, Huey Freeman and Gustave Rhodes, were so angry at the delayed raise that they filed a class-action suit on behalf of all the workers. Noting that the $100 million federal subsidy paid to sugar growers by the Department of Agriculture is conditioned on their payment of "fair and reasonable" wages, their lawyers tried for a sort of garnishment in reverse. As a result, Federal Judge John Pratt has just issued a preliminary injunction holding...
Died. Charles Correll, 82, tuba-throated half of radio's Amos 'n' Andy for more than three decades; of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years on the Southern tent-show circuit, Correll and another white vaudevillian, Freeman Gosden, teamed up on radio in 1928 to create the roles of Amos (a kindly taxi driver played by Gosden) and Andy (a scheming misadventurer portrayed by Correll). With its fractured black-dialect humor, the show became radio's first major craze. At the height of the program's popularity in the '30s, hotels canceled...
...LEONARD FREEMAN...
Just as twilight began to fall into night, and while we were occupied with the sunset behind us. Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals opened B.B. King's set. Fittingly, B.B. came on just as night started to fall, for you can't listen to blues before nightfall, because it is a nighttime music. He dipped deep for his classics, as if he had to make sure of his audience. He opened with "Everyday I Have the Blues," and took us way down for "How Blue Can You Get." B.B. King plays guitar at ascending levels of intensity: he builds...
...Freeman, 63, joined Tenneco in the company's infancy and soon became a favorite of Founder Symonds. Since his elevation to chairman last year, he has logged some 300,000 miles of travel keeping track of Tenneco's operations. "I trust everyone-it's just that I want to see things for myself," he says wryly in his chain-smoker's husky voice. These days Freeman finds little opportunity to visit his 600-acre ranch near Houston, where he keeps his collection of bronze equestrian miniatures...