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RENEÉ POUSSAINT, 32, was born in Spanish Harlem, studied at Sarah Lawrence, the Sorbonne, Yale's law school and U.C.L.A., sold advertising for a radio station in Malawi, translated a tome on anthropology from the French, and taught at Indiana University. Finding that her Indiana students paid more attention to television than to books, Poussaint fired off copies of her resume to television and radio stations around the country. CBS hired her for its Chicago outlet, and three years later made her a network correspondent there, at $28,000 a year. But Poussaint considers network reporting just another...
...wiry, intense man with a head like a parchment-covered cannon ball and a passion for skin diving, Ferrer was born in Santurce, P.R., in 1933. In New York City in his early twenties, he supported himself as a drummer with bands in Spanish Harlem. Cuban music, he recalls, gave him "the ability to bring out the tropical, primitive, emotional conditions of one's roots into the open, and to rejoice in their messiness and to be ... proud of their contradictions...
...South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock of recognition when he saw Roots on TV. Boyer's maternal grandparents were born slaves, and his grandfather had watched General Sherman's troops march through Georgia -marveling, as any nine-year...
...California restaurant owner complained of a 40% drop in business. At a Harlem tavern in New York City, patrons insisted that the jukebox be turned off while they discussed the TV program they had just watched; in Los Angeles, the owner of one discotheque closed down operations altogether. The reason: last week's twelve-hour dramatization of Alex Haley's book Roots...
...been called for traveling and will be out of the game for a while," quipped Henry Kissinger as the Harlem Globetrotters made him an honorary member last week. The slapstick-basketball players presented the outgoing Secretary of State with a team uniform, playing shoes, warmup jacket and an autographed basketball. Standing on an eight-inch-high platform to measure up to his guests, Kissinger approvingly noted that his new uniform bore the number 1. Said Henry: "The numeral accords with my estimate of myself...