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...roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
...once in the past have the First District's Negroes-43% of the population-challenged the chairman. Rivers trounced their 1950 candidate, a Negro attorney, in that year's Democratic primary. This year, in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, another Negro attorney, George Payton Jr., 39, decided to try. Scraping together the $2,000 registration fee with loans from relatives, Payton attacked Rivers as a "warmonger and superhawk," stumped for a $2 minimum wage, expanded social security, and liberal federal housing programs...
...militant campaign was hardly necessary. Last week Rivers' Democrats, along with several thousand Republicans who crossed party lines, gave the chairman 65,842 votes against 18,883 for Payton. The G.O.P. will not even bother to oppose Rivers in November...
Even more significant than CORE'S threat was the formal organization in Dallas this month of the National Committee of Negro Churchmen, composed of 300 members from twelve Protestant denominations. Its chief founder, the Rev. Benjamin F. Payton, president of South Carolina's Baptist Benedict College, concedes that U.S. churches have generally demanded equal justice for Negroes, and that white clergymen have been at the forefront of civil rights demonstrations. Nevertheless, says Payton, "I don't think we have yet the concrete actions that clearly suggest that the churches are moving to remedy the great evil...
...their own responsibilities. It plans to form a nonprofit corporation that will solicit funds from Negro congregations and other sources to finance housing and small businesses in urban ghettos. The committee will also try to help Negroes in predominantly white churches achieve a greater voice in policy. According to Payton, the organization represents "an effort to relate to the Black Power movement without adopting a philosophy of separation or black superiority. Our definition of Black Power is the power to participate...