Word: nat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nat Sci 2 has initiated a special group, membership in which is voluntary, to study the use of calculus intensively, The section, said Carleton, is for those with "more mathematical aptitude or background...
Ever since NBC made Nat "King" Cole the first Negro to host his own network show (TIME, July 15), potential sponsors have kept a sharp eye trained on both the show and its popularity polls. But even top nationwide ratings and a glittering line-up of guest stars (Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald, and in a rare upcoming live appearance, Bing Crosby) have failed to get him a national-sponsor nibble. Last week the makers of Rheingold Beer persuaded NBC to let them sponsor Cole in the East only-where Rheingold is marketed. "The fact that Cole is a Negro...
Cole, a stylist with a voice like a pull of taffy, is still TV's only regular Negro headlines* "I was talking to Lena Home the other night," he said last week, "and she said, 'You know, Nat, with your show going on like it is, maybe some day I'll get one.' I hear other Negro performers are pushing their agents to get them TV shows, but the agents say, 'We've got to wait and see what Nat's show does...
Only a Paper Crown. When Nat made his fall debut on NBC, he recalled, "They were kind of worried about our rating in the South, but it's just as good there as any place else." Yet the show is still unsponsored, and Producer-Director Bob Henry believes that the potential sponsors have been held off by unwarranted fears about the color problem...
Born Nathaniel Coles in Montgomery, Ala., Nat dropped the "s" to accommodate the "King" nickname after a nightclub owner put a golden paper crown on his head. He moved as a child to Chicago, where his father became pastor of the True Light Baptist Church and his mother the choir director. He was pounding out Yes, We Have No Bananas on the piano at the age of five, and at 15 he had his own band. It was a nightclub drunk who launched his singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless...