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...businessmen are responsible for draining money out of Harlem. But he has his own view of how Harlemites can reposess and increase the wealth of their community. Every dollar which goes into the pocket of a white Harlem businessman and is spent or deposited in a bank in the Bronx or "downtown" is a dollar which does not get invested in Harlem. If businessmen and individuals can be persuaded to deposit their money at Freedom National and other Harlem banks, the banks will be able to make loans to Negroes to purchase and improve homes and businesses. Soliciting accounts...
Marion Ann Borris Javits, 21 years the Senator's junior, was born in a Jewish slum in Detroit, moved to The Bronx after her parents were divorced when she was ten. She graduated from high school with honors in speech, soon afterward decided "to try Hollywood for a minute." The minute lasted for a couple of years, but she never made it as an actress, and at 20 she returned to make the rounds of the New York producers while working at odd jobs "for carfare and stockings." One of the jobs took her to the research department of Jonah...
...attack; in Basel, Switzerland. Born in French-German Alsace, Arp was nourished in both countries-in Munich in 1912 he studied under Kandinsky; in Paris he worked with his friends Picasso and Modigliani. More for fun than anything else, he was a founding father of Dada, the 1916-22 Bronx cheer that razzed tradition and called it art; yet his own, very personal statements were serenely curved marbles and bronzes...
Also elected were Phoebe C. Elisworth of Guilford, Conn. (Social Relations); Dana Smith Eisbree of Libonier, Pa. (Government); Penny Hollander Feldman of Silver Springs, Md. (Government); Sheila L. Grinnell of Bronx, N.Y. (English); Joan M. Helpern of New York City (Social Relations); Martha J. Kaplan of Perth Amboy, N.J. (Government); and Sydney Key of Berkeley, Calif, (Economics...
Beanballs & Bats. Most so-called U.S. sports rivalries are frauds, preserved only by tradition. The feud between the Giants and Dodgers is real. It was bad enough when it involved The Bronx and Brooklyn, two boroughs of the same city. Now the principals are San Francisco and Los Angeles, two cities 325 miles apart whose partisans hate each other's guts. In ordinary times, Giants-Dodgers games are still games. Aug. 22, 1965, was no ordinary time...