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...failure of these behind-the-scenes negotiations was demonstrated in a tragicomic fashion on May 24. At Bobby's request, Negro Author James Baldwin (TIME cover, May 17) arranged for a New York City meeting. Among those present besides Bobby and Baldwin were Negro Singers Lena Horne and Harry Belafonte, Playwright Lorraine (A Raisin in the Sun) Hansberry, Psychologist Kenneth Clark. Bobby went into the meeting under the illusion that Negroes feel gratitude toward the Administration. What he encountered was a shouting, finger-shaking barrage of anger, disappointment and impatience. Afterwards, one participant said the meeting was a "flop...
Once she sang Stormy Weather, it never quite sounded right coming from anyone else. But after 28 years of carrying a smoky torch from Harlem to Hollywood, Lena Home, still sultry at 45, finds the flame burning lower. Soon after she finishes her six-week run at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Lena says she will give up nightclub singing altogether. "It's stifling to keep singing these silly boy-girl songs all your life. All the drama has moved from Broadway to Mississippi. Why be trivial in times like these?" Her idea: "Match bitternesses" with Essayist James Baldwin...
Only 20 and a singer for barely three years, Barbra seldom hits a note on pitch, but she slides into tune with such grace that her quavers often sound intended. Much as she denies learning from other singers, her style is unmistakably Lena Home's, and she makes superb use of it. She closes her show with a slow version of Happy Days Are Here Again that lends the song an ambivalent sorrow only a very wise girl could dream...
...least $250,000 apiece) was chockablock with dentists, morticians and real estate moguls, but there was only a handful of familiar names-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Comedian Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once earned $20,000 a week tooting a trumpet with what came to be known...
...This Very Moment (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Special, with Burt Lancaster, Lyndon Johnson, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jimmy Durante, Connie Francis, Greer Garson, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson, Bob Hope, Lena Home, the Kingston Trio, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Newman, Jack Paar, Jane Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Dinah Shore, Danny Thomas and Joanne Woodward, benefiting the American Cancer Society...