Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a year of barnstorming with the Harlem Globetrotters, towering (7 ft. 2 in.) Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain,22, two-time All-America at the University of Kansas (1957, 1958), signed a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Warriors of the National Basketball Association. His salary-more than $30,000-makes Chamberlain the highest-paid player in N.B.A. history...
...first beauty contest she ever entered. Real reason for her surprise: Nancy is a Negro, the first of her race to become a beauty queen on the Indiana campus. A speech and theater major, she defeated 14 white coeds with her good looks and a dance interpretation of Harlem Nocturne, will now compete for the state's Miss Indiana title. If she wins that one, Nancy gets a crack at the big title: Miss America...
...Three ranking officers were demoted and a 28-year veteran bounced day before he would have been pensioned, because headquarters men smashed a numbers ring under their noses in Harlem...
...Back in Harlem, Belafonte worked as a handyman in tenement houses, toyed with the idea of becoming either a professional basketball player or a social worker, finally drifted into the theater by accident. (The occasion: he got two tickets to an American Negro Theater production as a tip for repairing Venetian blinds.) He worked as a stagehand at the theater, appeared in a few minor roles. Soon after that, he enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry...
Hash &. Eggs. Harry and his wife moved into a tiny $55-a-month apartment in Harlem with Marguerite's mother, lived for the first few months on Marguerite's salary as a teacher at Bethany Day Nursery. Marguerite remembers Harry in those days-the subway-riding days -as "a big, playful animal." A friend. Painter Matthew Feinman, remembers that he was seething with racial feeling. The two of them played chess, and when they were arranging the chessmen, Harry used to say: "I'm taking the black ones, man, because they're better than the white...