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lVhob World in His Handi' was the mngnfcent contralto of concert and oy.tera fanw, Ivlariun Anderson.
The song was inoariably tlw one audiences utanted to
heor wlwn shc went all ooer the worW on her State
Department-sponsored. good-will tours. Then in tlw

eorly I95Os Malwlia Jockson brought lwr own oersion

of the song to ller past gosTtel follouing. And rn 1958,

Laurie Lond"on, o l}-year-old. English boy,

ma"d.e a

recording that uas Dery porylar among young and oA

pop music aficionados. The song is I50 yeors old,
though it usos apparently frst publislwd in 1927.

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