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STANLEY LEVISON, 67;
ADVISER TO DR. KING

New York Lawyer Had a Key Role in S.C.L.C. Efforts to Further Civil Rights Movement

Stanley David Levison, a New York lawyer and businessman, who was a key adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and an important behind-the-scenes figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, died Wednesday at his home after a long illness. Mr. Levi[[text cut off]] lived at 85 East End [[text cut off]] years old.
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Babs Gonzales, a Singer Of Be-Bop Jazz Era, 63

Babs Gonzales, singer, author and jazz personality who was prominent in the be-bop era of the 1940's and 50's, died of cancer yesterday in College Hospital in Newark. He was 63 years old and lived in Newark.

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Charlie Smith, Ex-Slave, Is Dead;
Believed Oldest American at 137

By GEORGE GOODMAN Jr.

Charlie Smith, perhaps the oldest person in the United States — an assertion disputed by the editor of the Guiness Book of World Records — died Friday at the Barlow Convalescent Center, a nursing home in Bartow, Fla. He was said to be 137 years old.

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Charles W. White, a Black Artist, With Works in 49 Museums, Dies

By C. GERALD FRASER

Charles W. White, a leading black artist whose drawings, lithographs and paintings depicted black Americans in struggle and triumph, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure in the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 61 years old and [[text cut off]] print, Harry Belafonte, the singer, who was a friend and subject, said in the foreword:

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was later divorced. He told Walter Christmas in an interview in 1950: "Mexico was a milestone. I saw artists working to create an art for and about the people. This had the strongest influence on my whole approach. It clarified the direction in which I wanted to move."

Two other influences were the five lynchings within 15 years of three of his uncles and two cousins in the South and his own trips to the South, where he received positive and negative lasting impressions.

Mr. White was an artist in residence at Howard University in 1945 and was teaching at the time of his death at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles.

He is survived by his wife [[text cut off]] daughter, Jes[[text cut off]]
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Stroke Claims Veteran Actor Clarence Muse, 90 

Funeral services for veteran actor Clarence Muse were held recently at Evans-Brown Mortuary in Perris, Calif., with cremation to follow.

The 90-year-old film pioneer died a month after he suffered a stroke.

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Muse wrote many, many songs, including the popular standard When It's Sleepy Time Down South. 

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Rev. Herbert Bell Shaw, 72,
AME Zion Sr. Bishop, Dies

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