Word: mahalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, 49, set off on a world concert tour, all astir over her first command performance-before Denmark's King Frederik IX in Copenhagen-and a scheduled audience with Pope John XXIII in Rome. Mahalia was even more anticipative about her subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Said the Baptist contralto: "That's the most important thing in my life-to walk the streets where our Lord once walked...
...course the picture like the Festival, ends with Mahalia Jackson singing the Lord's Prayer. As always Mahalia is superb...
...ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine time watching Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Juliet Prowse, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jimmy Durante and a squad of others, including Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford...
...America with Ed Sullivan (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan in Chicago with Charlton Heston, Benny Goodman, Mahalia Jackson, Bob Newhart, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Dolores Gray-all of whom are to some degree connected with Chicago...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "One Nation Indivisible," a program of American music, stars Robert Preston, Mahalia Jackson, Peter Palmer and others. Color...