Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mostly the Harlem Diet. Operations helped his eyesight twice, and then he went blind for good. Soon he was as broke as the day he wandered into the Lenox Athletic Club. Whenever he could cadge the price of a meal, he always filled his pockets with restaurant toothpicks. "Most of the time I'm on the Harlem diet now," he explained. "When I'm hungry and I ain't got the price of a feed, I drink a glass of water and pick my teeth. Then I use my imagination...
Sportswriter Al Laney found Sam lonely and starving in a dismal Harlem flat. Laney's story about the great old fighter brought more than $9,000 in gifts, which gave Sam an income of $49.13 a month. He managed to get along...
Married. Joe ("the Brown Bomber") Louis, 41, longtime (1937-49) world heavyweight boxing champion; and Rose Morgan, 41, Harlem cosmetics manufacturer; on Christmas Day in Manhattan...
...permitting him to be what the white world has dinned into him that he is, a would-be rapist and killer. According to Author Baldwin, the Negro's pent-up hostility shows up in far stranger places, e.g., the rock-'n'-roll sects of the Harlem storefront churches where his late father used to preach. Says Baldwin: "Religion operates here as a complete and exquisite fantasy revenge: white people own the earth and commit all manner of abomination and injustice on it; the bad will be punished and the good rewarded, for God is not sleeping...
...criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism in Harlem. As for the future of black-white relations in the U.S.: "One's only got to look back to see that, though we certainly have cause for shame, we have, equally, cause for pride...