Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Singer-Pianist Hazel Scott, wife of Harlem's left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., hurried down to Washington to tell the Un-American Activities Committee that she had never been knowingly connected with the Communist Party. She asked "protection" for herself and others "unjustly accused...
...through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...
...news brought a comment from another once-great Negro fighter, who had been out of the headlines for a long time. Said Harry Wills, now a Harlem landlord: "Louis is crazy." Harry Wills was thinking of past performances. Five former heavyweight champions* had tried comebacks. All had failed...
...Barrio. North from Manhattan's 96th Street, the railroad tracks that run muffled under fashionable Park Avenue burst noisily into the open. The proud avenue itself splits around it, plunges down into narrow, squalid lanes flanked by ancient tenements. There, in what New Yorkers now call Spanish Harlem, the Puerto Ricans clotted. The Puerto Ricans call it "the Barrio...