Word: sidney
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Though the campaign's financial worries were far from over, Sammy Davis Jr. came through with a $17,800 check, Jack Lemmon promised half his salary from his next film (he has received as much as $1,000,000 for a movie), and Sidney Poitier, who donned work clothes last week to join a cleanup detail, contributed liberally...
...were dressed in civilian clothes, repeatedly cried out "Bao Chi! Bao Chi!" (reporter), the Viet Cong opened up on them with a burst of fire from their automatic weapons. They cut down all but one, an Australian freelance photographer who escaped by playing dead. Cantwell, a native of Sidney, Australia, had worked for Australian and Hong Kong newspapers and the Associated Press before joining TIME as a stringer-correspondent, spoke three Chinese dialects and was an avid student of Asian languages and culture. During the past year, he had covered a wide variety of stories about the Vietnamese...
...protests of Kennedy and McCarthy supporters, virtually assuring Humphrey of all 49 votes. In a brief visit to New York City, Humphrey sat down to luncheon with a group of Wall Streeters, walked off with pledges of some $750,000 in campaign contributions. With backing from such moneymen as Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs & Co.; John L. Loeb of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; John Connor of Allied Chemical Corp.; and Robert Dowling of the City Investing Co., Humphrey's opening kitty may soon pass the $5,000,000 mark...
...brought $48,000. Highest bid was $300,000 for Picasso's oval-shaped 1912 cubist painting La Pointe de la Cite. Second most expensive picture was Georges Braque's Homage à J. S. Bach from the same period, which was bought for $276,000 by Manhattan Dealer Sidney Janis, who last January gave his first ($2,000,000) art collection to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, and now may be starting all over again...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as two refugees from a chain gang in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones...