Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish there were a great saint in the United States, Dominican and Negro, a saint such as St. Francis of Assisi who could inspire a whole generation of youth and create in this country spiritual forms as universally intelligible as the music of Harlem: sainthood in blue...
...hand as they rode the ferry last week from The Bronx to North Brother Island in the East River. For Johnny, like most of the first half-dozen young addicts admitted to New York City's Riverside Hospital, was a mama's boy. From an underprivileged Harlem family, Johnny had taken to dope largely to prove that he was no sissy...
...housing project in Upper Manhattan, they dropped in on the Phil Frankels, and, for the cameras, Harriman bravely tried to hold squalling one-year-old Jay Frankel. He went on to Harlem, then stopped near the Brooklyn Bridge to pay homage to the statue of Al Smith...
...Tony Canzoneri wore the crown, the lightweight championship of the world meant something in boxing. Even as recently as two years ago, Lightweight Champion Ike Williams was respected for his shifty style, if not for his fighting heart. But when Williams lost his title last year to a Harlem unknown named Jimmy Carter, lightweight prestige slumped. Last week Champion Carter, 28 and still a colorless jabber, put his low-rated title on the line for the third time...
...University of Pennsylvania's varsity heavyweight rowing crew, the 21st Blackwell Cup race, nosing out Yale's crew by ten feet in a 1½-mile race; on the Harlem River...