Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than a mile from the station, panes of glass vanished from their frames, doors were ripped from their hinges, a movie theater collapsed. Within an hour, rescue teams of priests, Boy Scouts and taxi drivers were digging into the wreckage. Said one driver, jolted from his bed by the blast: "People were running through what was left of the streets in their underwear. I saw ten members of a family lying dead...
Except in the South, carnies know no racial discrimination. The shows that do discriminate, or tolerate "dunk-a-boy" concessions (in which a Negro boy sits on a perch that drops him into water if a customer hits a target with a ball), are considered "dirty." A "clean" show is not necessarily one that has no naked dancing girls-it is simply a show that gives its customers what it promises...
...Duke and his friends were playing for private affairs and dances at Washington's True Reformers Hall. A musical contractor arranged bookings in return for half of the fees. Duke noticed that the contractor got his business from a small ad in the classified phone book, so the boy took an ad himself, and he clicked. After that he never had to split his fees. Before long he had a house, a car, a wife and a son, Mercer. But his musical friends all moved to New York, where the jazz was hot. Duke followed in 1922, though...
Died. John Patrick Digues Treville Latouche, 38, prolific Broadway lyricist (The Vamp, Beggar's Holiday), onetime boy wonder (at 20 he had written the lyrics for the song Ballad for Americans, at 22 for the musical Cabin in the Sky); of a heart attack, shortly after revising his lyrics for the folk opera Ballad of Baby Doe (TIME, July 16); in Calais...
Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...