Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 speaking schedule. > The National Urban League is the most comfortable of all, figures easily to raise $1,900,000 this year. Last year it collected $225,000 more than it did in 1963, credits its strong financial condition to the fact that...
...turned out for Dot Kirby and, 35 years earlier, for Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta's war heroes too. Dr. King, I told them, was being honored as a Nobel prizewinner, not because he sat down at a lunch counter or picketed over in Selma...
...sickness shrouded his senses and the world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...
Your most startling comment prophesies the failure of Dr. King's leadership and his consequent slipping into oblivion. The winning of a Nobel Peace Prize is a strange prelude to such obsolescence...
...Sartre is adopting a daughter-Algerian-born Arlette Elkaim, 28, a movie critic on his magazine, Les Temps Modernes. Simone remains his good amie, but unless he leaves a will to the contrary, Arlette will be his legal heir. And while he spurned $53,000 worth of 1964 Nobel Prize money, his novels, plays, and current autobiography all sell at a distractingly bourgeois rate...