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SITTING IN HIS CORNER office overlooking New York City's West 47th St., Laurence Graff is the picture of Continental chic. Dressed in the finest bespoke suit, he speaks softly, highlighting words with a twinkle in his eye that seems perfectly coordinated with the newly certified diamonds laid out on the table before...
...Barrett was the only Harvard runner to place better than 45th. His time of 25:49.3 was 37th in the individual standings. Barrett was followed up by two sophomores—Brian Holmquist and Andrew Lipkin—whose respective times of 26:12.9 and 26:21.7 were the 47th and 49th best times. Mullen came in 54th in a time of 26:53.6. Dartmouth won the men’s side of the meet with sophomore Ben Truce pacing the way by taking home the individual title. At the beginning of the season when everyone was healthy we were...
Even reserve John Wolff—who impressed Chicago White Sox scouts enough that they used a 47th round pick on him in June’s MLB Amateur Draft—joined the act, signing just last week...
...World War I and World War II, segregation concentrated all levels of black society in Grand Boulevard, and a thriving nightclub scene attracted both blacks and whites to hear Duke Ellington, the Mills Brothers and Cab Galloway. Growing up in Pennsylvania, Alfred L. Bishop, now a funeral director on 47th Street, used to listen on his radio to Earl ("Fatha") Hines broadcasting "from the beautiful Grand Terrace theater in Chicago, Illinois." A dreamy, romantic-sounding place...
...gone," Bishop says, his hands exploding down and out, dismissively. The blacks who could afford it got out, like the whites before them. On 47th Street, once the heart of the community, no one objects now when a loudspeaker on a police wagon addresses those who have stayed behind as if they were refuse: "All right, clean off that corner. Now." On the streets of the neighborhood, one sees only an occasional sign of social or spiritual uplift. One, outside a church, inquires, HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST? The other, a billboard, says, DARE TO BE MORE...