Word: sitters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singing Environment. Actually, his story needs no fanciful embellishments. Harold George Belafonte Jr. was born 32 years ago in Harlem, son of a seaman in the British merchant marine; his mother was alternately a dressmaker, a baby sitter, a domestic servant. Both parents came from Jamaica, West Indies, and both were products of white and Negro unions. Harry's father disappeared when he was two (he reappeared sporadically after that), and Harry was brought up by his mother in a succession of Harlem tenements. At his first school (P.S. 186, on 145th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...
...doctor was trying to figure one out, he tripped over the sitter's foot, fell headlong against the bathtub and knocked himself cold...
Then, with a hearty "ally-oop" the ambulance crew tore the sitter from her sitting place and trundled her and the doctor to the hospital...
Attorneys later drew up two lawsuits against the young couple-one for the sitter and one for the doctor. But the suits will never be filed, an insurance company executive said today. They'll be settled out of court...
Laughing just as loud as the A.P.men, editors all over the U.S. (New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer) slapped a feature head on the story and ran it. But other editors with better memories remembered the baby sitter's tale for what it was: a gnarled hoax that has been knocking around city rooms for 25 years* When the more knowing editors began to protest to A.P., Twin Cities reporters, backtracking truth to its lair, found that the trail ended with a 35-year-old suburban Minneapolis insurance agent named Fred R. Keller, who said only...