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of gifts to the publishers. One of the gifts that year was a $14.95 record player for RCA 45 records.

Well when we got wind of Joe's action we lit into him as well and from that day on Joe's name was mud with me.

A few years later and with our fight still on—A young singer by the name of Leontyne Price and her husband to be William Warfield returned home from Europe on the conclusion of the Bleven-Davis production of "Porgy & Bess."

I, in my role as advertising manager of the Courier, talked the Ruppert Beer people into sponsoring a reception for the cast at the Rupperts Brewery on Third Avenue & 95th street then promptly forgot Leontyne Price and William Warfield.

Well it seems that year or so later a fellow by the name of Gian Carlo Menotti was presenting his 'Amahl and the Night Visitors' as the Christmas show on NBC. The role of Casper who was the Black one of the three kings who sought out Christ, was to be played that year by a white singer, a friend of Mr. Menotti. I resented this because I thought a Negro should have been employed. Well NBC called us in again to talk the day before Thanksgiving that year. The talk was to be about our opposition to the proposed Christmas broadcast.

When Jim and I got our invitation to come down we checked around the hotel, Theresa Bar to find out what other Negro press person was invited, we did not find any. So we decided to go to see what was going to happen.

When we got to the executive Dining room of NBC which was located on the Third Floor of 30 Rockefeller, we saw a guy in a swallow tail coat and some hickory striped pants waiting for us at the door. And we, coming from Harlem, thought this guy was the man Sid Eiges wanted us to meet.

Our thoughts abruptly changed when the man took our coats and

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