Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entertain; it does not offer readers escape-or tips on how to be popular or successful. In fact, the popular and successful reader may be made most uncomfortable by The Seven Storey Mountain. A sample of the book is its description of New York City's Negro quarter, Harlem...
Pert little Soprano Camilla Williams, a City Center veteran (who paints her face to sing Madame Butterfly and La Bohéme) was a natural for Aïda. Amonasro was a newcomer. But by the time the curtain slid down last week on Aïda, 6 ft. Harlem Baritone Lawrence Winters, 32, had his first big-time opera audience, if not all the critics, cheering, too. His voice was fine, strong and ringing on top; and what he lacked in power, polish and poise should come with time...
Catholic settlement house in Harlem. Jones describes the work done throughout the world by the American Friends Service Committee-which he helped found. His conclusion about the committee: "It is a revelation on a small scale of what would happen on a great scale if ... the whole Church of Christ should be dedicated to the urgent business of rebuilding the world on the lines of the Kingdom...
...Received a pledge of 100% support from Harlem's "unofficial mayor," Sherman Hibbitt, told him: "If you can carry Harlem...
...quiet dignity and soldierly efficiency had made him a full colonel; eight years later, he got his first major command: a Harlem National Guard regiment. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt appointed him brigadier general, the U.S. Army's first and only Negro general officer, and he took over the 4th Cavalry Brigade at Fort Riley, Kans. He was sent to Europe in 1942, won the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in inspecting Negro troops and easing explosive Army racial tensions. After the war he settled into the routine of peacetime Army life...