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Toward the end of his life, Cantor triggered an outpouring of hate mail when, on a television show, he embraced and mopped the brow of a young Sammy Davis Jr. Threatened with cancellation by his worried sponsors, Cantor promptly engaged Davis for the rest of the television season and repeated the embrace on the next show, defiantly telling his sponsors--and the public--that he would not cave to racism even if it jeopardized his career.
Small wonder that Cantor received a Presidential Commendation in 1964 for his "selfless" devotion to "humanitarian causes of every description."
--Christopher Clay
© 2000 The Washington Post Company
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