Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mel vine Belafonte brought Harry and Dennis back to Harlem, they moved into a white neighborhood, where Harry passed for a time as a "Frenchy" from Martinique. But he could not keep it up: "Once I got really hot and spilled the beans." After that, the fights were more frequent and more vicious than ever. Belafonte still bears a few of the scars of street combat, but, he says, "the emotional scars were worse. I was good at sports, and when they chose up sides they always chose me first. I was accepted then, but it never carried over...
...Back in Harlem, Belafonte worked as a handyman in tenement houses, toyed with the idea of becoming either a professional basketball player or a social worker, finally drifted into the theater by accident. (The occasion: he got two tickets to an American Negro Theater production as a tip for repairing Venetian blinds.) He worked as a stagehand at the theater, appeared in a few minor roles. Soon after that, he enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry...
...Business of Sex (TIME, Jan. 26 et seq.). Last week Ed Murrow indulged in a little escapism of his own, announced he would take a year's leave of absence from CBS for "traveling, listening, reading and trying to learn." Murrow, now 50, insists that he will report back for work on July 1, 1960. His replacement on Person to Person: Arthur Godfrey...
...Silverstein, "will greatly increase our capability to send a mission to Mars and Venus." ¶ Most advanced project in the works: a five-stage job with a 6,000,000-lb. thrust first stage, which will be capable of carrying a man to the moon and bringing him back. In combination with a nuclear-powered upper-stage rocket, it should take 55,000 Ibs. to Mars...
...Back of the aggravation was a history of near financial disaster which began three years ago with Bishop Theas' approval of costly plans for a new underground basilica in Lourdes. To pay for the $2,800,000 structure, the bishop borrowed from bankers against future donations from pilgrims. But no sooner was ground broken than floods threatened to sweep away the foundations; the cost of repairs doubled the final estimate to some $5,600,000. With half the original funds already spent, Théas again applied to the bankers, but was turned down...