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...1960s was so quick to label all older blacks as 'Uncle Toms.' Roots has helped turn this around. People come up and thank me for making them go back to their parents and elders. And I tell young people to go home and hug their grandma and grandpap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race: Haley's Rx: Talk, Write, Reunite | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...alert Gunsmoke director spotted his name and sent for his photograph. As easy as that, William Hickman Hill Jr., 19, grandson of the late Tom Mix, was off to Hollywood. He has now finished playing a drifter in a forthcoming TV episode in hopes that his grandpap's talents were hereditary. At least some of them seem to be, because "Hick" is already a pretty fair rider and roper, used to do it for a living as foreman on his father's Laredo ranch. "Back home in Texas, I made $5 a day," he says. "But here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

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