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...Even such all-black musicals as Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky patronized as they provided employment. "It's been a long journey to this moment," said Sidney Poitier when he received his Oscar for Lilies of the Field in 1963. But his was only the last lap. The first million miles were traveled by Eddie Anderson, Stepin' Fetchit, Willie Best, Butterfly McQueen and other gifted actors whose long ride in the back of the bus can be seen again every week on television...
...shotgun plot: she will get Jim drunk, lure him to bed, and keep him there until her father appears with witnesses. The scheme backfires in a tender, boozy nightlong sharing of longings and confidences. Jim falls asleep, little-boy-fashion, with his head in Josie's lap, but not before revealing that there is room in his spent life for only one woman, his dead mother. Dawn finds him, the father and the daughter locked again in separate dooms...
...year-old from Albuquerque had skill and daring going for him too. Unser's older brother Jerry was killed during a practice run at Indy in 1959; his younger brother Al narrowly escaped injury when he lost two wheels and slammed into the wall on the 41st lap of last week's race. Worried about Al, plagued by a broken transmission that forced him to stay in high gear and therefore cost him seconds accelerating away from each pit stop, Bobby nonetheless drove the race of his life. "I was out there to root...
Baker was a front-runner in the mile, fighting for the lead over the first three quarters with Villanova's Charlie Messenger and Frank Murphy. With one lap to go. Baker was a step behind Murphy...
Patrick kicked early, pulling Murphy along and then most of the field roared past the wiry Englishman. Baker's last lap was fast but couldn't compete with Patrick's amazing...