Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Criminal." The son of a lower East Side barber who liked to pass out money in the streets, Jimmy began his career by punching a honky-tonk piano for 75? a night. After working in a score of saloons before he was 22, he graduated to a Harlem cabaret, where he played the piano for $45 a week "from eight o'clock at night till I was subconscious." The boss stifled Jimmy's attempts to be a comedian; he didn't like piano players who tried to be funny. But the comedian could not be stifled...
...Arrive Polo Grounds. Push, claw, and body-punch through 61, 369 fans in effort to enter park. All Harlem, if not all New York, appears to be present...
...Arrive Polo Grounds. Push, claw, and body-punch through 61, 369 fans in effort to enter park. All Harlem, if not all New York, appears to be present...
...Revolutionary War, George Washington selected 120 mounted men, called "Rangers," to meet the enemy at Harlem Heights. That term for tough, elite U.S. troops persisted through the War of 1812. Then it fell into disuse in the federal service, although Texas and some other states had constabulary troops called Rangers. During World War II, the U.S. Army did not adopt the British term "commando," and again called its special troops Rangers. They moved dangerously behind enemy lines, compiled a heroic record...
...Robinson? Oh, no! It can't be. There must be some angle there!" But if there was an angle, Robinson rounded the corner on two wheels, gunned down a new straightaway. He now thoroughly enjoys his new personality as the responsible citizen. He is a big man in Harlem, a political power, who is often on the phone with his good friend Mayor Impellitteri ("I call him Vince"). Walter Winchell buzzes him constantly. Edna Mae (on her way to join Robinson in Paris this week) often has Mrs. Winchell "baby sit" for Ray Robinson...