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...Uptown Gossip. Amidst its planned madness, WILY also has exhibited civic spirit-it helped to get children placed in foster homes, campaigned for improvement in the Negro community. From its pigeon perch on top of a fruit market, WILY collected neighborhood news by offering listeners $5 for tips on human-interest stories or uptown gossip. "Radio isn't like it used to be,'' says balding, Baltimore-born Manager Tannen, who once worked as a chorus boy in Mae West's Catherine Was Great. "It has become like wallpaper, a companion...
...friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public courts, and her performance was phenomenal. The other players quit their games to watch. In her first time on a tennis court, Althea learned the pleasure of playing to a gallery...
Stickball Revenge. One night last week two boys walked through an uptown Manhattan park. One was 15-year-old Michael Farmer, who limped as a result of a childhood polio attack. The other was his friend, Roger McShane, 16. Suddenly, from the bushes sprang 17 members of the Egyptian Kings. Slashing with knives, the gang knocked the two boys to the ground, killed Mike Farmer and hurried away as Roger McShane, badly wounded, dragged himself into the street for help...
...week's end city police strengthened their coverage of uptown gang areas. But their blanket was too thin. One night, only 73 hours after the Farmer attack, 18-year-old George Marshall, standing on a Bronx street with a friend, was set upon by five boys and two girls, stabbed to death as his companion ran for help...
...year was 1936, and Jimmy Hines was riding piggyback on political success. As Tammany Hall's leader of the slum-bound Eleventh Assembly District on the city's uptown west side, charged with guarding and delivering the district's Democratic vote, Hines had won the acclaim of his followers by employing a basic technique: disbursing favors. "In politics," he explained, "the thing to do is build yourself an army...