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...Radcliffe team also did combat Saturday winning the Widgeon regatta at Stonehill College in New Bedford. Marie Roehm, who was the low point skipper at the NCAA Women's National Championship in June, and Sarah Herrick commanded the squad's boat, taking three out of four races against five other schools...
...compensation, the movie can boast some accurate location work around New York and some fine, sinewy performances by Rony Clanton as Sonny, Joyce Walker as his girl friend who turns to the needle, and most especially by a group of black nonprofessionals, a lot of them recruited from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Once in a while, the movie quiets its tone of social soap opera and pulls together a strong sequence: a gang fight, staged with the right kind of rushed clumsiness and dulled, all-directions violence, and a lacerating funeral sequence with a lightning-rod eulogy by a preacher...
Earl G. Graves, 39. Chase Manhattan has a friend in Earl Graves. The bank put $25,000 into his monthly Black Enterprise magazine four years ago, now values its investment at nearly $500,000. Graves went from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto to win a scholarship at Morgan State, later was an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy's Bed-Stuy redevelopment project. An ex-Green Beret captain and federal narcotics agent, he started Black Enterprise in 1970, turned a profit the first year, now earns more than $2 million in ad revenues. Suave and ambitious, Graves has expanded...
...fronts, from doing what he is supposed to do best: making cities a better place to live in. The prolific architect and his staff of 110 have won wide acclaim for creating or renovating buildings in almost every large American city, including his heavily-decorated Kipps Bay Plaza and Bedford-Stuveysant Superblock in New York and his Society Hill Towers in Philadelphia...
Shenanigans like these earned them the nicknames Batman and Robin, and may once have made fair copy. (The film was extracted from L.H. Whittemore's book about the pair's exploits in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the late '60s.) On screen, though, their heroics look lame. We expect our cops to be either a good deal meaner (Hackman in The French Connection, Scheider in The Seven-Ups) or at least stronger fantasy projections of unwavering strength and authority, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Greenberg and Hantz here are neither real enough...