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"Because I'm Jewish, for 46 years I've said,
`next year in Jerusalem.'"
— Comedienne and talk show host Roseanne,
on why she wept at religious sites in Jerusalem
while visiting Israel to attend the Tel Aviv
branch of Los Angeles' Kaballah Learning
Center, where she studies.
A
t 16, Dave Usher wasn't trying to break
down any barriers between whites and
blacks, or make any statements about race
relations in 1946. He was just looking to
meet a celebrity.
"I had a desire for a friendship because I
admire what Dizzy Gillespie did as a musi-
cian," said Usher, 69, 53 years after meeting
the jazz great at the Paradise Theater in
Detroit, now Orchestra Hall. The friendship
lasted until Gillespie's death in 1993.
To mark that bond, Usher, who in his day
job owns Marine Pollution Control and travels
the world cleaning up oil spills, is releasing a
compilation compact disc that he recorded
while touring with Gillespie and his band in
South America in 1956. The CD is available in
limited supply at some Detroit-area stores now
and there will be a full release in September.
The State Department sponsored that trip
"to show the world that the U.S. was follow-
ing its integration platform," said Usher, who
was the public information office on that trip.
The band that went on the month-lona four-
country trip down had four white musicians.
Usher remembers only one sour note:
being denied rooms at the Savo Hotel in
Buenos Aries because blacks were in the
band.
This was particularly ironic because the
Savoy Hotel was owned by Americans," said
Usher in the CD's liner notes. It was a huge
story in South America."
The next morning, Usher was rousted out
of bed to go to the "Pink House" to accept an
official apology from the president of
Argentina.
Usher also had a business relationship with
Gillespie as the two co-owned Dee Gee
Records from 1951-53. "It was a continua-
tion of our friendship," Usher said. In and
out of my career, I've always gone back to my
interest in music. "
—Lonny Goldsmith
"If he's going to make any money doing so,
he's got to do it pretty quickly, while people
still remember who he is."
— Mary Morris of the Los Angeles
World Aaffairs Council, on reports
that outgoing Israeli Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu
will charge $60,000 for a public
appearance.
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