Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Syracuse University. Mestrovic,' who knows as well as any man living how to make statues look like monuments instead of stone dummies, imparted some of his secret to Artis. The Quiet One (inspired by a documentary movie of the same name about childhood maladjustment in Harlem) is a quiet, beautifully compact monument to a Negro boy who sits withdrawn, miserable and taut with life...
...Smith, after competing in the East-West basketball game, was chosen last week a member of an all-star team that a presently engaging the Harlem Globe-Trotters on a barnstorming tour. Smith, who got only four points in the all-star game, has done considerably better on the tour. He scored six points the first night, and later led the all-stars to one of their few victories with a 22 point performance...
...contrast, "The Quiet One" is one of the best recent products of the movie industry--the documented story of rehabilitating a lonely, frustrated Harlem boy. This one shouldn't be missed...
Small World. In New York City, Samuel Grove, 26, discovered to his chagrin that the Harlem poolroom operator to whom he tried to sell two suitcasefuls of clothing was the tenant of the Bronx apartment from which he had stolen the clothing several hours before...
From the time he started to work at the age of five, Willie Moretti kept his eyes peeled for the fast buck. His first job with a Harlem milkman paid 25? a week. Later, as a teen-ager with plenty of savvy, big-city cunning and a marked talent for crap-shooting, Willie managed to do a little better-though he did spend a year in the reformatory for assault. But it wasn't until he took to betting that Willie really hit his stride...