Combs To Pay for Thanksgiving Meals

ATLANTA (AP) â€” Sean ``Puffy'' Combs has taken up the torch of late civil rights leader Hosea Williams, feeding the homeless for the holidays. <br><br>Combs pledged Sunday to pay for this year's

Monday, November 20th 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

ATLANTA (AP) â€” Sean ``Puffy'' Combs has taken up the torch of late civil rights leader Hosea Williams, feeding the homeless for the holidays.

Combs pledged Sunday to pay for this year's charity Thanksgiving dinner, an annual tradition founded by Williams in 1970. Thirty-thousand are expected on Thursday.

``It's a crazy thing to have your stomach growling and not knowing you're about to eat,'' Combs said. ``I feed the hungry in New York every year for the holidays and I've seen hands-on what this does for the people, and it's something we need to all come out and support, even if it's just a dollar.''

Williams, a top adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, died last week of kidney cancer complications. He was 74.

Combs declined to disclose how much he expected the dinner to cost.