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...King himself left in mid-march to make a speech in Cleveland, returned to the procession a few miles outside Montgomery. He walked about 27 miles in all. That night, a batch of high-priced and highly diversified entertainers-such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nipsey Russell, Shelley Winters, Floyd Patterson, Harry Belafonte, Leonard Bernstein-performed for thousands packed in a muddy field in Montgomery...
...PATTERSON HAZEN New York City...
...into the many aspects of the civil rights crisis-as seen from the North, the South and the middle-has included such subjects as Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
...small inability; it is the lack of a sense of proportion. All of his ideas seem equally good to him, all fights equally worth fighting. He is in danger, also, of becoming less a private sensibility than a public act. His very long essay on the first Liston-Patterson fight contains a detailed description of how he had gone to pieces that weekend; hung over and distracted at a press conference after the fight, he shouted insults at Liston, got himself carried bodily from the room...
Eric Lessinger and Ellen Miller gave moving interpretations of this affair, but the really impressive characters in this piece were the clowns. Played by Susan Patterson, Bob Walsh, and Ron Porter, they were extraordinary funny. Susan Patterson's tremendous talent as a comedienne almost detracted attention from her equally impressive dancing abilities...