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Alberta Hunter, 89, Cabaret Star, Dies

By JOHN S. WILSON

Alberta Hunter, an internationally famous blues singer and cabaret star in the 1920's and 30's who, after two decades of retirement, began a second successful singing career in her 80's, died Wednesday at her home on Roosevelt Island. She was 89 years old and performed until last summer. 

Miss Hunter, a small, frail-looking woman, had a robust singing voice, and she emphasized the beat of her songs by slapping her thighs, clapping her hands and snapping her long fingers, setting up a rhythmic momentum in which her audiences soon joined with shouts of [[text interrupted]]

friend in Chicago that singers were being paid $10 a week, she got a ride to Chicago with one of her teachers.

During the next eight years, she worked her way up through Hugh Hoskins's club ("Where the pickpocket women did everything in their power to show me how to live a clean life"); the Panama Cafe, where her fellow singers included Florence Mills and Bricktop, and the Dreamland Cafe, where she sang [[text interrupted]] Creole Jazz Band [[text interrupted]]

Sir Cedric Hardwick and Mabel Mercer, who was in the chorus.

Miss Hunter came back to the United States later in the 30's, and appeared in 1939 in the play "Mamba's Daughters," with Ethel Waters. In World War II and the Korean War, she entertained troops overseas.

When Miss Hunter's mother, to whom she had remained close all her life, died in 1954, she decided to give up singing and do something "to help humanity." She enrolled in a practical [[text interrupted]] at the Harlem Y.W.C.A. [[text interrupted]]

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Alberta Hunter

Harold S. Johnson Dies, Devoted Church Member

Harold S. Johnson, 74 years old, died on Jan. 27 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a year-long illness.

Mr. Johnson was a man who quietly and efficiently worked for the community. He was a life member and former president of the Martha's Vineyard branch of the N.A.A.C.P. He participated in Island life to the fullest extent, as a board member, and on the personnel committee of the Island Theatre Workshop, the American Legion Post 257, program advisory committee on alcohol of Martha's Vineyard Community Services, and was a member of the Martha's Vineyard Golf Association. He is remembered fondly for his courtly manners by the riders of the Elder Services van during the period he was a driver.

Obituary

Eugene Edward Whitlock was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was the youngest of five children born to Elizabeth and Mogul Whitlock.

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Julian Mayfield, 56, an Actor And Writer on Black Themes
By JAMES BROOKE

Julian Mayfield, a black American novelist, playwright and actor, died of heart complications on Saturday at the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park, Md. He was 56 years old and a resident of Washington.

Following a Broadway debut in 1949 at age 21, Mr. Mayfield became a prominent novelist and playwright in the 1950's. In the 1960's, his advocacy of black power led to two self- [[text interrupted]]
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Mrs. Alvin Childs Dies, Lived in Vineyard Haven

Mrs. Mildred Childs of Vineyard Haven died on March 6 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, after a long illness. She was the wife of the late Bishop Alvin Childs of New York city. A friend remembers that she was a very warm and loving person who had many friends on [[the]] Island.
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JEROME HOLLAND, FORMER U.S. ENVOY
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By JOAN COOK

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Budd Johnson, 73; A Jazz Saxophoni[[st]] From Swing to B[[?]]

By JOHN S. WILSON

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