Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defendants in the ten-month trial were second-drawer leaders of the U.S. Communist Party, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith...
...Washington's Phillips Memorial Gallery and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both bid for the entire series, and regretfully divided it. The generally bored and blase "art world" warmed at once to the bullet-headed youth, who got his early art training in a Harlem settlement house, and whose temperament was intense to the point of rawness...
Lawrence followed his first success with a group of pictures illustrating the life of John Brown, others describing Harlem and the Deep South, and then two series based on his service in the Coast Guard. In 1949 he voluntarily entered a mental hospital for therapy, emerged with the makings of a somber group entitled Sanitarium. His latest series, on view at a Manhattan gallery this week, is a contrastingly lighthearted view of the entertainment world. A standout in the show is reproduced on the following page...
...finance, hold up the scholarship end well enough. Their current grades: three As and a B apiece. They have been upholding their athletic reputations even better since the first day they walked into the gym. Their biggest thrill: a charity game last year when they handed the famed professional Harlem Globetrotters their first defeat in 77 games, with Johnny scoring 43 points...
Francis X. Mancuso, former general sessions judge, crisply admitted to his longtime acquaintance with Costello and Luchese. His suave self-assurance unshaken, Mancuso also admitted that he had decided not to run again for leadership of an East Harlem assembly district after two local hoodlums had "advised" him to resign...