Word: englewood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Martin Block, 64, radio's original platter and patter man; during heart surgery; in Englewood, N.J. "It's Make-Believe Ballroom time," purled the theme song. "Put all your cares away." And millions did-to the tunes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore. For the Ballroom's affable host, the recorded performers always came alive. "Great job, Benny," Block would applaud. "You never sounded better." The make-believe began in 1935 at New York's WNEW when Block's boss told him to pad news bulletins from the Lindbergh kidnap trial...
Fifteen miles to the southwest, a Negro mob in Plainfield, N.J., surrounded a white policeman and stomped him to death. Trouble erupted in nearby Elizabeth, New Brunswick, Jersey City and Englewood. Halfway across the nation, gangs of young Negroes in Cairo, Ill., hurled fire bombs and sniped sporadically for two nights, until Illinois Governor Otto Kerner ordered in 50 National Guard troops. Six hundred guardsmen were mobilized in Minneapolis, whose Negro population is only 2%, after two nights of rock throwing and arson. Gangs in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, lobbed rocks and vitriol at Whitey. In West Fresno...
CHRISTINE NEIBERT Englewood, Ohio...
...Jewish boy and a Catholic girl titled Abie's Irish Rose, which ran for a record 2,327 performances on Broadway*and earned her, all told, an estimated $15 million, most of which she lost in the 1929 stock-market crash; of a heart attack; in an Englewood Cliffs, N.J., nursing home, where her fees were paid by the Actors' Fund, a charity for indigent theater people...
Craig Stapleton of Leverett House and Englewood, Colo., has been named captain of next year's squash team, and Bob Damus of Quincy House and San Bernardino, Calif., will be captain of the fencing...