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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer-Actor Paul Robeson-a popular idol in the '20s when he introduced Ol' Man River in Showboat, then a popular villain in the '50s for his espousal of left-wing causes-is becoming respectable again. Now 72 and ailing, he has had a student center named after him by Rutgers University, where he played All-America football and earned a Phi Beta Kappa key as a member of the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1972 | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...educated young writer named Lester Dent. Trained as a telegrapher, Dent was innocent of grammar ("of no value to we") and guilty of heinous cliches ("The warriors were certainly a chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remington-wrecking rate. Under the pen name Kenneth Robeson, he knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years. As stories, most of them are bloody good. He is a funhouse mirror of the America that loved him and apparently still does-a big square joe with the body of Charles Atlas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Gore of Yore | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Muhammad Ali is as complete as a man as he is a fighter. Secure and serious in the pursuit of his "purpose in life," his strength, courage and conviction recall to mind Paul Robeson, the hugely talented black singer who parried the assaults that a demi-world of small men thrust at him because of his beliefs. Like Robeson, Ali possesses a majestic grace that allows him to thrive when it is expected he will crumble. Seven years ago when he fulfilled that initial purpose of his life by winning the championship, he said, "I'm free...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: The People's Champion of the World | 5/5/1971 | See Source »

...world has largely assumed that Chambers approved all the machinery of anti-Communist harassment and repression dreamed up by the alarmed community. Far from it. The Right, Chambers writes, must show "special scrupulousness in the civil liberties field." Bitterly inveighing against the 1954 denial of Paul Robeson's passport, he adds that Robeson's mistreatment "puts you and me and the next him in jeopardy." Buckley urges him to support McCarthy publicly. Chambers acknowledges that he fought in the same war, but refuses. "For the Right to tie itself in any way to Senator McCarthy is suicide . . . What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words from the Center of Sorrow | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

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