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That, briefly, is how Carl Stokes, the former mayor of Cleveland and the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, came to undertake a TV career as one of the station's two anchor men last week. Professional TV newsmen were loudly disturbed at the incursion of a...
Viewers had other complaints. In his first few appearances, Stokes read the news as if he were practicing for an elocution lesson. NBC apparently had told him and fellow Anchor Man Paul Udell to try for an informal, bantering approach-the secret of the ABC outlet's success. Both...
And so we are back to the prospects for 1972. During recent months, Jet magazine, a black weekly, polled its readership of more than two million and found that 96 per cent of the respondents thought a black person should run for President this year. Two names led the list...
There are other cracks in the supposedly unified black front. Mervyn Dymally, a state senator from Los Angeles who is the most powerful black politician in the state, has served notice that California's elected blacks do not want to be bound by a national black strategy, regardless of...
Most shaken were her black political colleagues; those 100 Ibs. now stood between them and a unified strategy for '72. Although Bond's favorite-son tactics were still workable with Chisholm in the race, supporters of the Stokes plan for a national black candidate now found themselves with...