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I agree.NAT KING COLE - Biography - Page 7 Tudor-styled home in the fashionable Hancock Park section, with their daughters, Carol (Cookie), Natalie (Sweetie), their son, Nat Kelly and their twin daughters, Casey and Timolin. One secret ingredient of Cole?╟╓s success is his enthusiasm and his desire to inject something new into every engagement. He usually pre- pares as much as six months in advance of an engagement. An event that gave him perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction of his varied career, was the benefit he staged several years ago in Caracas under Catholic Boys Club sponsorship, with the joint blessing of the Venezuelan Government and United States Ambassador Sparks. Profits went to help house 160,000 homeless youths, who had been sleeping in the streets. In May of 1961 Nat made his first Japanese concert tour. He became interested in the country some time ago, when Capitol informed him that his records sold more there than any other other artist s?? He has traveled over the past 10 years to over 20 countries in concert appearances, winning enormous respect and admiration wherever he went. Late in 1963, he received an extraordinary tribute when California Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins read into the Congres- sional Record a special commendation, pointing out the fact that "his unique voice and his own remarkable presence have made him a great ambassador of good will without portfolio for our country. ... more