Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the prominent Negroes who have taken white spouses have come from the laissez-faire world of show business: Lena Home, Pearl Bailey, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Harry Belafonte and Sammy Davis Jr. Some civil rights activists, such as James Farmer, formerly chief of CORE, and the late Walter White, the N.A.A.C.P.'s longtime executive secretary, went the same route. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke has an Italian wife, but the wedding was long ago and far away from public view; by the time it became noteworthy, Negro Brooke, rather than his Caucasian spouse, had led the family...
...musical version of Peg o' My Heart starring Eartha Kitt, will be tuning up at the Music Fair, Westbury...
From there, says Dr. Nicholas Mayall, director of Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, "we will be able to study star systems in a different state of evolution from our own." In addition, such observations will clarify man's understanding of universal distances, and provide optical studies of many radio sources for the first time. "By studying the Southern Hemisphere," says Mayall, "we will find if the distribution of radio objects, such as quasars, is even, uneven, clustered or what. If the observations show that quasars are not uniform but are instead clustered around the north and south...
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Eartha Kitt guest-stars as a contortionist who lends her improbable talents to the Impossible Missions Force in an effort to catch a defector with nuclear secrets...
...third billing in nightclubs. Johnny Leggett, 28, is a country-and-western warbler who never made it past the smalltime in the States, but in Viet Nam he pulls $1,000 a week. Margee McGlory, a Negro pop, blues and jazz singer who does a fair imitation of Eartha Kitt, makes only $300 a week, but that is more than she was able to earn at home. Oliver Pacini, an accordionist who has spent years playing small dates in and around San Francisco, earns $150-$200 a show and is extremely popular because of his nostalgic sing-alongs...