Word: daves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seizing on these seemingly immutable truths, two itinerant Negro waiters named Dave Greene and Blueboy Harris make themselves rich by setting up a thriving numbers bank in the city's ghetto. Like so many other aspects of the black world, the numbers operation is an inverted form of a white institution, the solid local business community. It, too, boosts the economy and shapes the ghetto's social and political structure. For the author, a former waiter, it further serves as an arena for playing off characters who embody multiple visions of the Negro destiny...
Moral Search. Dave, the numbers king, is a forebear of today's black radicals, a sort of "new Negro" whose drive for power and respectability is born of pride, anger and an awareness of his heritage. At best, his racket can bring him power only at the cost of respectability, and even that power is sharply circumscribed...
...Crimson should also be powerful in the hammer throw this weekend as Charlie Ajootian, Ed Nosal and Dave Bernstein go after victories. Ajootian and Nosal traded first and second place in the event throughout the season, and Bernstein was usually close behind. Ajootian also captured first place in the event in the prestigious Penn Relays in April...
Senior Fred Fisher and Joe Bracewell were awarded the Haines Cup, and sophomore stroke Dave Harmon was elected captain of next year's team at the lightweight crew banquet Friday night at the Varsity Club...
Senior weightman Dave Bernstein, who came from total obscurity as a freshman to place in the Hep weight indoors and the hammer outdoors, and senior Charlie Ajootian, who captured the NCAA title in the weight throw indoors, captured the other two Improvement Awards...