Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity and junior varsity 150 pound crews opened their spring seasons Saturday on the Harlem River, defeating the Columbia lightweights in both races...
...Harlem theater enjoyed a sellout business with a new attraction: old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, featured (at $7,500 per week) as a member of a dance revue...
...Painful Dentists. Dentistry, says Harlem Hospital's Dr. Jules Weinstein, may offer more scope for hypnosis than any other branch of medicine, because 1) nearly all dental operations are painful; 2) the patient usually has to go back for more; and 3) "dentistry retains the taint and stigma of its early . . . crude and torturing methods." But patients who can get by without hypnosis should not have it, says Dr. Weinstein; it should be reserved for those who feel that they need it because they cannot face up to the pain of even routine dental work, and for others...
...game), and won the tournament's most-valuable-player trophy, as Seton Hall won handily, 58-46. The big man on everybody's All-America team, Dukes reportedly has his choice of signing with the professional National Basketball Association for $10,000 or the famed Harlem Globetrotters for $15,000. Dukes, who once spoke with disdain of pro basketball and talked of becoming a lawyer, now coyly parries all questions about his future with the professional entertainer's standard comment: "See my agent...
...25th anniversary of his debut at Harlem's Cotton Club, jazz fans paid tribute to Negro bandleader...