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...Xavier III 72, St. Louis...
...dolls have actually been around for years. Back in 1977 a Georgia artist named Xavier Roberts, now 28, began to turn out handmade cloth models that he insisted on calling "little people," each different from all others. Roberts invented a syrupy ritual for selling the dolls. They were not made but "delivered" and "adopted" at a former medical clinic in Cleveland, Ga. His employees had to wear nurse's white uniforms, and each prospective "parent" had to raise a right hand and vow undying love. Roberts has sold 250,000 dolls, many to adults for themselves, at prices ranging...
...most prestigious of the black colleges, ended its latest fiscal year with an $8.9 million deficit. Public black colleges are somewhat better off since they can count on state revenues. But even many of these colleges have been hard hit by reduced aid. Says Norman Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans: "Black colleges face the same societal and economic conditions that black families face. When times are tough, we suffer the most...
...Xavier Suarez I extend an olive branch but not the laurel of victory. That will never happen as long as he allows himself to be manipulated by the hate-mongers of this community...
Advice heard, advice unheeded. No advance was forthcoming, but Hirt passed along a horn to Wynton, who made his first public appearance the following year, blowing the Marine Hymn during a recital at the Xavier Junior School of Music. Over the next decade, following a few years of preadolescent musical indifference, teen-age funkifying, intense jazz practitioning and a little professional seasoning with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Wynton Marsalis found himself with a major-label record contract. His debut album has sold about 125,000 copies-a surprisingly strong showing for a jazz record-and pulled down...