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He aspired to lead his people out of Egypt. But he lost his way and his Leftist allies, and wound up in a political Slough of Despond

Few men in the United States are more dissatisfied than Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Democrat from the State of New York. One wonders why. He lives in luxurious houses, in Westchester and Washington, drives a Nash Healy and a Jaguar, enjoys, with his wife, pianist Hazel Scott, an annual income of $115,000 (his: $40,000; hers: $75,000), and makes yearly pilgrimages to Salzburg for the music festival. As pastor to the Abyssinia Baptist Church for twenty-seven years, he continues to shepherd the largest Protestant church in the country. He has been re-elected to Congress six times. But Powell knows that man does not live by bread—or its refinements—alone. He lives by dreams.

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He aspired to lead his people out of Egypt. But he lost his way and his Leftist allies, and wound up in a political Slough of Despond

Few men in the United States are more dissatisfied than Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Democrat from the State of New York. One wonders why. He lives in luxurious houses, in Westchester and Washington, drives a Nash Healy and a Jaguar, enjoys, with his wife, pianist Hazel Scott, an annual income of $115,000 (his: $40,000; hers: $75,000), and makes yearly pilgrimages to Salzburg for the music festival. As pastor to the Abyssinia Baptist Church for twenty-seven years, he continues to shepherd the largest Protestant church in the country. He has been re-elected to Congress six times. But Powell knows that man does not live by bread—or its refinements—alone. He lives by dreams.