Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family to give me a note of introduction to another family, etc. It worked fine. And although these Puerto Ricans are about as poor as you can get, they were unfailingly hospitable, usually insisting that I drink a steaming cup of coffee (75? a pound in Spanish Harlem) before I left. It was a weary, rewarding...
Bell's expense account carried one item that called for an explanation: $1.40 for incense. He bought some professed "love-bringing, money-bringing, power-bringing charms" to help set the atmosphere of Spanish Harlem for A. T. Baker, who wrote the story...
Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
...best first basemen in National League history, left the major leagues yesterday. He hit .320 in 11 years with the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants. On August 23 last year, the Giants waived him out of the league and sold him up the river (Harlem) to the Yankees. He played in only 13 games for the Yanks, mostly as a pinch-hitter, but he got into his first World Series. He pinch hit twice, in two games, hit two singles, and batted in two runs, one of which won a game...
...Harlem's 1,700-seat Apollo Theater, Wednesday nights are gala affairs, and seats go on sale a week in advance. By the time the last stage show is over the house is packed and noisy, waiting for Harlem's No. 1 amateur show. 'The fun really begins when bouncy, bright-eyed Stagehand Norman ("Puerto Rico") Miller appears, dressed up in one of a roomful of outlandish costumes, and brandishing the prop pistol he uses to chase unsuccessful amateurs offstage...