Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Fifth Avenue and in the high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
...American College of Surgeons, to which nearly all U.S. surgeons would like to belong, has 13,000 members. One of them is a Negro: Harlem's Louis Tompkins Wright, a specialist in skull surgery who was admitted in 1934. Last week another Harlem surgeon, George D. Thome, graduate of Howard University...
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
After a brief introduction by Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, Hughes launched into the long saga of his life--working across Europe, washing dishes in Harlem, attending Columbia, traveling to Mexico and experiencing various other Ulyssesian adventures. "This," he said, "is an answer to the question of how I write my poetry...
...world rife with war and hate, in a nation rife with racial prejudice and discrimination, your story [TIME, Nov. 20] of interracial medicine at Harlem's Sydenham Hospital comes as the most encouraging evidence of social progress of which I have heard for a long time. Thanks for telling us about it. Perhaps social progress is not a myth, as I had begun to fear...