Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...completely when he speaks of Spanish-Jewish "coexistence." I would like some clarification on this point. Does he mean that the Spaniards of Torquemada's time agreed to let the Jew coexist with them as long as he became a Catholic? To a Humanist like myself, the sugar-coating of history is the greatest of all "sins...
...Soprano Patrice Munsel will become the first star on the Metropolitan Opera roster to have her own TV series, and both bouncy Guy Mitchell and bland Pat Boone will head up their own variety shows. Warner is busy grinding out reels for a new "adult" horse opera called Sugar-foot to alternate with Cheyenne, and another called Maverick (with new Cowboy James Garner) to oppose the Allen-Sullivan powerhouse Sunday nights. Reliable old Character Actor Walter Brennan stars in a folksy situation comedy called The Real McCoys, and OSS will chronicle the World War II cloak-and-dagger exploits...
...when she recognized Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in a Harlem bowling alley, Althea went up to him and said brashly: "You're Sugar Ray, aren't you? Well, I can beat you." The blunt greeting started a fast friendship. "Althea used to come over to our apartment and sit on the floor," says Sugar Ray's wife, Edna Mae. "She was unhappy; she had a gaunt build and she felt that she was the least good-looking girl she knew. She had insecurity and went into herself. She used to talk wild. I tried to make...
...trouble was that by then Althea dominated Negro girls' tennis, and she was getting nowhere fast. She shot pool and billiards, soaked up jazz and thought of a career as a nightclub singer or musician (Sugar Ray bought her a saxophone). Then, in the summer of 1946, Althea moved up to the women's division of the Negro A.T.A. national championships. She was beaten in the finals by Roumania Peters, a Tuskegee Institute instructor, but her tremendous potential as a tennis player caught the attention of two A.T.A. officials: Dr. Robert Johnson, a general practitioner from Lynchburg...
...Eaton would take Althea to Wilmington for the winter and put her through high school; in the summer she would travel the Negro tournament circuit with the Johnsons. Her family agreed, and Eaton still recalls Althea's arrival at the railroad station in Wilmington: "There she was with Sugar Ray's sax in one hand and in the other an old pasteboard suitcase with two belts tied around it. She was wearing an old skirt; she'd never owned a dress in her life. My wife bought her a few dresses and tried to make her more...