Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When LIFE'S editors, last February, decided to publish a close-up of Negro Champion Joe Louis, they looked about for a Negro journalist to write it. The man they picked was dimple-cheeked Earl Brown, 38-year-old, Virginia-born managing editor of Harlem's weekly Amsterdam News...
...Detroit, where Negro Idol Joe Louis got his start, went Earl Brown, on leave from the Amsterdam News. There he talked with Manager John Roxborough and his wife, with some two dozen Louis friends and hangers-on. In Chicago he spent an evening with Marva Louis, Joe's wife, while she told her troubles. Back in Harlem, he saw Al Monroe, onetime Louis pal, Negro staffwriter for the Chicago Defender. Then Editor Brown wrote his story...
...afternoon Amsterdam News's Publisher C. B. Powell called Editor Brown into his office, told him that Roxborough did not like the story, feared it might hurt Joe Louis' status as an idol. Said Powell : "Do you want to resign or be fired?" Earl Brown chose to be fired...
...sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...
Joyfully the Smitmen of New York, including third son Piet, concluded that some of The Netherlands' skilled cutters had escaped (without their equipment) to London. With relief they got busy on the saw order. It meant that Amsterdam's great diamond-cutting industry had not fallen entirely into enemy hands. To firms like Smit & Sons, which specialize in industrial diamonds, it meant that they could still supply the Allies' war-pressed industrial machine with indispensable diamond tools...