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...news of his arrest shocked neighbors on 120th Street in Harlem. It surprised employees at 200 Varick Street, where Strachan had worked for 20 years. It stunned the choir at the Greater Refuge Temple, where he sang bass- baritone. "We said, 'That's not the Leroy Strachan we know -- he wouldn't hurt a fly,' " says elder Charles Wright. "He's not the sneaky, runaway kind of guy." Then there were Leroy's children, who had no idea that for 45 years, their father had lived with a secret that finally caught up with him. Perhaps it was poetic justice...
...lovable, raucous man with a deliciously evil laugh." Ever restless, he'd catch a few hours' sleep, start his composing (on a silent piano) at 4 a.m. and be ready for a martini at 8 a.m. "After all," says Sullivan, with whom Loesser fell in love when she sang the female lead in Most Happy Fella, "it was lunchtime...
...Jeffries said, "a debonair racist." He repeatedly called her "Miss Daisy." Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who has written against Afrocentrism, is "a weakling . . . slick and devilish." White people, including "very nice white folks," "distort history in what I call racial pathology. They are as diabolical as that." Jeffries sang out falsetto imitations of various Jews and other whites, manic little strokes of mockery and emasculation. Through it all, he invoked the liberating powers of truth. When he was finished, the audience gave him a rather tired standing ovation. He had gone on for almost two hours...
...same. Free medical care and public schooling, heretofore rights for expatriates, are history. Private schooling is still possible, but the 50% government subsidy has been ended. "Why should we aid them?" asks Education Minister Sulaiman al-Bader. "Most of them went to school during the occupation where they sang the Iraqi anthem and studied Saddam's speeches. How could our own children learn sitting next to them...
...Rumble dee, rumble dum, Democrats aren't going to come," sang the Fool, doing a little dance step...