Word: barrowes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black markets flourished in East End streets. Barrow merchants sold silk stockings (probably stolen goods) with only a pretense of accepting rationing coupons. Crates of oranges, strictly restricted to children, passed through a market speculator to his favored customers. Housewives evaded milk rationing by registering with two companies, thereby getting twice their legal share...
...Louis' fistic career terminates next week, ten fabulous years of a big coffee-colored boy's life will end. Ten years ago, Joe Louis Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes. Transplanted from an Alabama cotton patch at the age of 12, the strapping, slow-thinking boy, only two generations away from slavery, had found himself a misfit in city schools where his classmates were nearly half his age. He never got beyond the fifth grade...
...finished it. One day in 1931, one of his pals persuaded him to go to the Brewster St. Recreation Center (a settlement house in the heart of Detroit's "black bottom"). There Joe learned to box. At first he disliked it, preferred handball. But within a year, Joe Barrow was the best fighter in the Center, won a silver cup as the most outstanding novice light-heavyweight in Detroit's Golden Gloves tournament...
...that time Roxborough was on the verge of backing another up-&-coming Negro light-heavyweight, John Henry Lewis of Arizona. But after seeing Joe box a few rounds, Roxborough forgot about John Henry. "What's your name, boy?" he asked the shy, shambling kid. "Joe Louis Barrow," the kid replied. "That's too long, I'll just call you Joe Louis...
Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned...