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...spell his name "Elder") nonetheless becomes chief spokesman for a church that is 95% white in membership. A 1938 graduate of Union Theological Seminary, Hawkins has held only one ministry in his pastoral career, at St. Augustine's Church in a somewhat slum-ridden section of the lower Bronx in New York City. He started the church from scratch, with a congregation of nine; today it numbers 1,000, about one-third of them Puerto Ricans...
...YORK UNIVERSITY-Gould Student Center, University Ave. at 181st. What makes the long haul up to The Bronx worthwhile is the New York debut of a young and promising painter who infuses her abstractions with vitality. Tamara Thompson, 29, has structural poise and color sensitivity, sturdy values that serve many moods. October Painting summons the warm chill of a fall day. American Eagle is a glossy salute in red, white, blue and-lavender. Works in oil, gouache, Liquitex. Through...
...afternoon last week, an 18-year-old switchboard girl named Olga Romero hurtled naked and screaming down the stairs of a building on busy East Tremont Avenue in The Bronx. In the vestibule, in plain sight of the street (the door was open), she lay screaming and bleeding, while a man struggled to drag her upstairs again. "Help me!" she cried again and again. "He raped me." Heads popped out of offices along the hallway, and a crowd of about 40 gathered outside to watch. No one made any move on her behalf. No one called the police...
...Bertha Haas, 68, a Bronx widow, spent an evening with an elderly woman friend at the Avalon Ballroom, a kind of senior citizens' dance hall on Broadway that forbids liquor and jitterbugging, caters to older people looking for gentle companionship. Later, Mrs. Haas and her friend stopped at a cafeteria for a cup of tea and a bit of cheesecake, then took the subway to The Bronx and separated. Mrs. Haas walked home. Next morning a porter in Mrs. Haas's apartment building saw blood on the lobby floor. He followed a trail of bloody streaks...
...Demand. So are the businessmen, even though a couple of other economic indicators-housing starts and orders for durable goods-have been declining. At the week's biggest annual meeting, where 4,411 of American Telephone and Telegraph's 2,350,000 shareholders met in a chilly Bronx armory, Chairman Frederick R. Kappel announced that A.T. & T. had installed 750,000 telephones in the first quarter and is experiencing a "quickened" demand. Kappel had better reason than most to be enjoying the business climate. To raise $1.2 billion of the $3.3 billion that it will spend this year...