Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every white man knows his time is up," snapped the frail-looking Negro in the embroidered pillbox to 5,500 Negroes packed into Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena one hot afternoon last week. "I am here to teach you how to be free. Yes, free from the white man's yoke. We want unity of all darker peoples on the earth. Then we will be masters of the United States, and we are going to treat the white man the way he should be treated." Roared the crowd: "That's right! More! More!" For more than...
...West Coast Negro paper, not only gained attention from his personal column, but also found their circulations boosted fast by Moslems who hawked the papers on street corners as a spiritual duty. Such leading Negro Harlem politicos as Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church) and Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack have curried Moslem favor, even though full-fledged Moslems are enjoined not to vote...
After convalescing for three months on his Virginia farm and in his Manhattan apartment from lung-cancer surgery, TV-Radio Impresario Arthur Godfrey, 55, paused in San Francisco on his airborne way to Hawaii. A voluntary exile from show business since his operation, Godfrey will tape some Waikiki Beach sequences in Honolulu for release on CBS-TV this fall...
Selden Rodman has made a, host of both friends and enemies in Manhattan always impassioned, sometimes shrill art world. What excites both camps is Critic Rodman's controversial habit of asking big questions about art and then offering plain answers in book form. Rodman's The Eye of Man (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955) asked whether artists should not "communicate spiritual truth," and replied with an emphatic yes. Now Rodman is deep in a new book, The Insiders, which asks whether artists should not paint what they feel in a recognizable fashion for all to understand. Again he gives...
...above downtown Rio de Janeiro, in the hilly Santa Teresa district, a chauffeured Oldsmobile last week pulled up to a modern apartment building. As a pudgy, genial-looking man stepped out, English-speaking Brazilian Detective Sadoc Reis called out: "Hi, Lowell." "Fine," replied Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, wanted in Manhattan on charges that he stole stock worth $14 million from two U.S. companies (TIME. July...