Word: mahalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAZZ ON A SUMMER'S DAY (CBS, 10-1 p m ).-Jazz Greats Louis Armstrong, Gerry Mulligan, the George Shearing Quintet felonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson and others in performances filmed at a pas Newport Jazz Festival...
...Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 53, devoutly believes, and when medics told her that she would be able to resume her career despite the heart attack she suffered five months ago, "I went to a Catholic Mass and prayed," she said, in her Chicago home. "I'm a Baptist, but I believe there's only one God." One thing taken away for good, however, with the aid of a diet, are 50 of Mahalia's original 250 Ibs. "Doctors say I have to lose at least 25 more Ibs.," she laughs...
...expenses by not hiring replacements for staffers who quit. >Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) spent $625,000 last year, managed to stay even with its income. The current budget is $500,000. Most of S.C.L.C.'s cash comes from big-name (Harry Belafonte, Mahalia Jackson) benefit performances, from monthly direct-mail appeals, or from book royalties and speaking appearances by King, who raises as much as $10,000 from a single talk. Oddly enough, S.C.L.C. figures that it lost money because King got the Nobel Peace Prize: it kept him away from his normal...
Martian Byplay. Actually, the sidelights occasionally proved more memorable than the speeches or the commentary from the pundits: the Iowa delegation, for example, proudly waving stalks of New Jersey corn; Mahalia Jackson's off-Key version of The Star-Spangled Banner; Pennsylvania Nonagenarian Emma Guffey Miller and her peppery complaints about the hall's crowded aisles. And then there was ABC's great moment, after ABC Commentator Hubert H. Humphrey had. been nominated for Vice President, when Ed Morgan turned to Howard K. Smith to say, "Well, Howard, we may not be the top network...
...Married. Mahalia Jackson, 52, high priestess of Negro gospel songs; and Minters Sigmond Galloway, 47, salesman for a Gary, Ind., building contractor; both for the second time; in Chicago...