Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME Cover does a disservice to Newark. By featuring Mr. Smith, you have increased a misfit's questionable fame. My children and the nation would have been more enlightened as to man's bravery, honor and humanity had you shown Fire Captain Moran or Patrolman Toto, who sacrificed their lives so that Newark citizens may live free of fear...
Willie the Lion Smith, 69, has been creating something for himself for more than half a century - and talking about it as fast as he could play it. With Fats Waller and James P. Johnson dead, he is the last of the great "stride style" pi anists who flourished in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. The style - so named be cause the left hand shuttles between low notes and midrange chords in an oompah pattern - draws its riches from ragtime, and it requires a "two-fisted tickler" to make it roll...
...writing is lower than that of white dailies. The Negro papers often take a jocular view of crime. A columnist for the Amsterdam News called "Mr. 125 Street" offers typical items :"Goldie Reed fled after his chin was creased while he was having a discussion with his wife. . . . Florence Smith of the Bronx and Ann Jackson of Brooklyn met in Harlem, and Jackson's neck was sliced." Such self-stereotyping repels many well-educated Negroes. "It hurts to read these papers," says a Negro student at Dallas' Bishop College, "because it makes me aware of how much farther...
...best possible wife," while another notes that California's divorce rate is twice as high as the rest of the nation's. To the Journal's declaration that the California woman has "greater total freedom, yet greater personal security" Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith scoffed: "Greater total nonsense...
...Reggie Smith won the game in the Sox half of the inning. First up, he hit a sinking liner to right that skipped past California outfielders Bubba Morton for three bases. Ace reliever Minnie Rojas, who had given up his third and fourth home runs of the season the night before to the Sox, struck out catcher Russ Gibson and got pinch hitter Jerry Adair to hit a grounder to third. Watching the potential winning run instead of the ball, infielder Paul Schaal let it go through his legs to end the game...