Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crusades. Tuesday concerns itself mainly with Negroes-and, in the first issue, with successful, middle-class Negroes. It has articles on CBS Reporter Joan Murray, Golf Pro Charlie Sifford, Comedians Godfrey Cambridge, Dick Gregory and Nipsey Russell, a Chicago law firm of four Harvard-trained Negroes, and Marian Anderson at home. It runs a Washington column that focuses on news of Negro politicians and civil rights, a teen page, and reviews of books about Negroes. It also has a "Tuesday Opportunities" section, which emphasizes that there are plenty of job chances for Negroes...
Unfortunately for mademoiselle, her monument will be nearly as gauche as most of the ditties about her. To be erected whenever Armentières can raise the $14,000 that it will cost, it depicts her as a sort of bedroom Joan of Arc surrounded by four admiring soldiers, who are holding her aloft on a serving tray...
Even more than tenors who try to upstage her, Diva Joan Sutherland dislikes reporters who crowd her. Last week La Stupenda, as her fans call her, hit a low note in her relations with the press...
...Later, Joan and husband showed up at a Sydney restaurant for a press reception. Before anyone could ask a question, Bonynge delivered a shrill lecture: "I will not allow myself and my wife to be persecuted by orangutans of the press," he shouted. "We have been most vexatiously wearied by the impertinence of photographers at the airport, when we had given firm instructions that the press was not to know of our arrival. We do not believe in the divine right of the press...
...moment the press was speechless. Then one reporter mumbled: "You're carrying on a bit much, aren't you mate?" At that, Joan and husband stormed out, followed by the frantic restaurant manager. He had spent most of the day whipping up a special fish sauce for Joan that he said was "comparable to the peach Melba, the tribute to that other Australian soprano, Dame Nellie Melba." The manager fell to his knees on the sidewalk, kissed Joan's hand and begged her to return. She went back after some hesitation, then tried to laugh away...