Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superlative athlete, but that was almost incidental to the role he came to play in history. He happened to be black, and his timing was perfect. Thus James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens became forever a symbol of the triumph of the individual over man's more malevolent impulses. At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, which Adolf Hitler hoped would be a showcase of Aryan supremacy, Owens won four gold medals in track and field events, a feat not equaled since. The sight of the graceful American's soaring victory in the long jump and his Olympic-record wins...
...Alabama tenant farmer, Owens was a schoolboy track star in Cleveland. He worked his way through Ohio State as a night elevator operator, and after his Olympic triumphs pursued a variety of jobs: disc jockey, bandleader, salesman. A forceful speaker, he eventually prospered as a lecturer and headed his own Phoenix public relations firm. Until he entered the hospital in December, stricken by the lung cancer that killed him last week at the age of 66, he was, appropriately, serving as the State Department's "Ambassador to Sports...
DIED. James Cleveland ("Jesse") Owens, 66, track-and-field legend who, by winning four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dashed Adolf Hitler's dreams of demonstrating Aryan supremacy; of lung cancer; in Tucson (see SPORT...
...broadcasts and on records in the 1920s, '30s and '40s, and later became music director for Playwright Noel Coward, Mantovani was little known outside of Britain until 1951, when he created his silken "shimmering strings" effects and recorded the waltz Charmaine. The recording, monomaniacally promoted by a Cleveland disc jockey, triggered a Mantovani craze that turned his American concerts into sellout affairs and seven albums into gold (more than half a million of each were sold). Said the purveyor of Greensleeves, Misty and Moulin Rouge: "Perhaps 25% of the people like the classics, and about 25% like...