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BILLY ROWE’S NOTEBOOK
The greatest
turns chicken!
NEW YORK CITY -
Muhammad Ali, the legendary
retired three times heavyweight
champion of the universe, has
inked a multi-million dollar
contract to give his all to the
merchandising of chickens,
live, fried, stewed, brothed and
souped. The agreement calls
for the Greatest to attach his
nom-de-plume to all the
accountrements of the bird in a
major drive to attract franchise
deals at home and abroad. He
plans to give Perdue’s “Oven
Roasters,” and Col. Sanders’
“Kentucky Fried” a heated
battle for the pots.
Stan Scott, the ciggie
executive who was an early
George Bush for prexy
bandwagon passenger, chirped
after lowa, “My Dark Horse
Gets Lighter After Every Ballot
Caucus Count.”
Congressman Charlie Rangel
has put the full weight and
prestigue of his “write” hand
behind the drive to have the
President award Joe Louis, the
immortal heavyweight, the
nation’s gold medal on his
upcoming May 13 birthday.
Friends of the late super
song stylist Nat King Cole have
planned a gathering in Las
Vegas March 10 &11 for an “I
Remember Nat Tribute.”
Sammy Davis Jr. will host the
happening at Caesars Palace.
Grambling State University,
which grinds out all those pro
bait gridiron greats, is among
eleven colleges and University’s
ASCAP selected to share the
annual SII,OOO Raymond
Hubbell Musical Scholarship.
Divided in sums of SI,OOO, the
amount is to assist young
composers, performers and
future music teachers. Hubbell
is best remembered for his
composition, “Poor Butterfly.”
WRITE ON TIME
Eubie Blake, who is enjoying
the greatest attention of his
long and productive life, will
receive a presidential accolade
when he celebrates his 97th
birthday next Thursday.
Shortly after he will embark on
a tour of cities in the wake of
“Eubie,” the hit show of his
material, which is playing the
hinterlands in two companies.
Caught Lolita Holloway and
Dan Hartman’s, “Relight My
Fire,” act. It was HOT.
The Hollywood NAACP is as
serious as Cancer about the
film city handling of
Afro-Americans. Collette Wood
has been added as its full time
executive secy to search and
destroy flicker bigotry. On her
agenda are talks with those
who control each facet of the
industry in hopes of widening
the employment of
Afro-Americans before and
behind the cameras.
The CBS-Wax Works has
desolved Laßaron Taylor’s
“Black Music Dept.” into an
existing corporate operation,
but not his powers. As of now
his staff has also been obsorded
so none have been axed yet.
Veteran newsguy Dick
Edward is in the hospital for
surgery. However in the
meantime Walter Richardson,
the octogenarian performer,
will check out of the Veterans
Hospital to tune a Steinway
and sing some songs.
Pals of Herb Wright are most
concerned over the latest turn
in his health. He was missed at
the annual Midwinter confab
of the NNPA in Norfolk where
Opehlia Devore Mitchell had
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on hand her folks, News Ed.
Carol Gerdes, June Austin and
Margaret Dawson. Catching
Connie Parker in the elegant
Omini Lounge was an ear treat.
The pianist, song stylist is
polished enough for the Apple.
FACTS ON FOLKS
Casablanca would like to call
the signs for O.J. Simpson to
run through two new films it
has scheduled for the silver this
year. The “Juice” is about to
make it big in his other than
gridiron career. His for teevee
flick, “Goldie and the
Boxwer,” was so successful its
producers are already planning
sequal and behind his effective
Rose Bowl commentary he’s a
cinch for more of the same.
Somewhere in-between all this,
and before the juice runs out,
O.J. must lay down for a knee
operation.
Gregory Mark Lockett
summoned his folks to the
West Coast for a listen as he
and lovely legal secretary Lisa
Young exchanged vows. His
dad is a Seagram executive and
his mom is a bank boss in New
Jersey.
My how some things have
changed, like the Beverly Hills
Chamber set to honor Ella
Fitzgerald March 7 with the
Will Rogers Memorial Award at
a $65-per dinner at the Beverly
Hilton. There was a time, not
too long ago, when both the
posh neighborhood and the
staid hotel were off-limits to
Afro American.
According to the trade, the
most attractive aspects of
Melba Moore’s trade marked
jeans is the manner in which
they highlights the Sistah’s
derriere.
At times like these it’s ironic
that Blood, Sweat & Tears, and
War, are set for a European
tour come March.
In Rome for the San Remo
Song Festival, Dionne Warwick
has hired a rear-guard to ward
off pincher.
SCLC leader
to speak here
Dr. C.T. Vivian, one of the
original organizers of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference will speak for
Minority Business Month
Wednesday Feb. 13 at
Tabernacle Baptist Church at
7:30 p.m. The public is invited.
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Josey band to
lead parade
The award winning T.W.
Josey High School “Sonic
Boom of the South” Marching
Band has been selected by the
Georgia School Food Service
Association to lead the parade
of their Silver Anniversary
Convention in Augusta April
17.
A convoy of trolley cars will
also be in the parade and
disband at the new
Augusta-Richmond County
Civic Center.
The T.W. Josey band was
recently rated “excellent” in
the Centennial Marching Band
Festival in Lithia Springs, Ga.
It won first place in the
Edgefield Jaycees Christmas
Parade, the Amos Alonza Stagg
Bowl in Pheonix City, Ala. -
Thanksgiving Classic between
Alabama State and Tuskegee
Institute in Montgomery, Ala.
The band won second place
in the 12th Annual Peach Bowl
Classic in Atlanta.
Josey’s Jazz Ensemble is a
member of the National
See “MARCHING BAND”
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Band to
give concert
The Augusta Community
Concert Band will give a
concert Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. at
the Augusta College
Performing Arts Theatre. Don
Milford will be the director.
Special guests for the
concert will be the members of
the Augusta College Jazz
Ensemble, directed by Michael
McClary of the college Fine
Arts Department.
Admission to the concert is
$2.00 and tickets may be
purchased at the box office
prior to the concert.
The program will include a
variety of musical moods,
according to the two directors.
The Jazz Ensemble, which is
comprised of 23 musicians,
specializes in the big band
sound, while the concert band
will be performing more
traditional concert band
selections.
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