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Growing up onscreen, Dorothy was pretty as a Keane picture, vivacious as Betty Boop, and slim--slim as a black actress's chance of movie stardom in the whites-only golden age. Nina Mae McKinney (in Hallelujah) and Fredi Washington (in Imitation of Life) had radiated passion and depth, but...
SENTENCED. MALCOLM SHABAZZ, 12, grandson of Malcolm X; to 18 months at a juvenile detention center; in Lenox, Mass.; for setting a fire that killed his grandmother, Betty Shabazz.
After beating back the youth at Winged Foot Thursday with birdies on the last three holes and a 4-under-par 66, perennial comeback-story Jon Daly faces a tough time staying on top. After the round, the Sisyphean Betty Ford grad said winning it all would be "a shock...
PLEADED GUILTY. MALCOLM SHABAZZ, 12, Malcolm X's troubled namesake, who set the fire that killed his grandmother Betty; to the juvenile equivalent of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree arson; in Yonkers, N.Y. He faces up to 18 months in detention. His sentence, however, will be re-evaluated yearly...
DIED. BETTY SHABAZZ, 61, Malcolm X's steadfast widow; of third-degree burns suffered in a fire allegedly set by her grandson; in New York City. In 1965, as her husband was shot repeatedly, Shabazz, pregnant with twins, flung herself over her daughters. Her first impulse, to protect the children...