So here I am with the day off due to Martin Luther King Jr. I
spent a portion of it going through one one my two storage
bins searching for a tape I made on July 1, 1976 of an
inpromptu speech by Martin Luther King Sr., the greatest
speaker I have ever heard in my life. As a radio reporter in
Atlanta, I taped many speeches, press conferences and etc.
The one I made of Daddy King was nothing special. I might not
have gone to the event if I had known he was speaking. I went
because Andy Young, then a Congressman from Atlanta, was
scheduled. But he could not make it and asked Daddy King to
appear instead. I was treated to a stunning speech. A few
years ago I gave Martin Luther King III a copy of the tape
but it has been a long time since I listened to it myself I
had a fair amount of association with Daddy King back then
and only now appeciate how wonderful a man he was.
Along the way I discovered a couple of boxes of good mystery
stuff. All that I bought but a lot that I barely remember
buying. So shoot me!!! The boxes include the first six or
seven years of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as well as
copies of Mike Shayne and other mystery mags. Since the
discussion of Ralph Dennis was so in the 1970s, I today
plucked a copy of Mike Shayne that I have no memory of
buying. It is the February 1975 issue. I took it with me on
the subway and I greatly enjoyed Lawrence Treat's "Accuse Me,
Please" especially the first sentence "Let me begin long ago,
with this morning." This was Treat trying to do a Stanley
Ellin and he comes close to succeeding.
Also the issue had Gil Brewer's "Deadly Little Green Eyes"
which was a 15,000 word take on a a classic Brewer novel. The
beginning was quick and not all that well laid out but he had
the theme going soon and it rode well to the end. The reader
had to be able to gulp at the beginning and at the end but it
held together pretty well.
All in all, the reader got their 75 cents worth. In fact,
these days, 75 cents does not buy a person the shortest ride
on the metro system.
Richard Moore
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