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...tired of books like Race Riots New York 1964, published soon after an event for the sole purpose of selling copies. Fred C. Shapiro and James Sullivan have produced the almost inevitable hodge-podge of decent reporting, vignettes both tired and telling, and banal analysis that rarely moves beyond the superficialities of a Time cover story. Thomsa Y. Crowell Company, the publisher, might just as well have reprinted old newspaper articles with an appendix of personal reminiscences from policemen, reporters, and others present during the ricts...
...Shapiro and Sullivan tell the story of the "sleek, middle-aged man in Bermuda shorts" who told them, "These are not the real people of Harlem. These are not the people who make Harlem great. Tell your readers there is a good element in Harlem." A few minutes later they saw the same man "his bare knees pumping and his fists waving in the air as he screamed, 'Kill the mother--whiteys...
HAROLD ROLAND SHAPIRO New York City
...Molthan sent blood samples to research centers around the world. From London came a suggestion: Mrs. Hutson's blood seemed to be of the Shabalala type, named for Mrs. Elizabeth Shabalala, 42, a handsome, strapping Zulu in whom the type was first detected in Johannesburg, by Dr. Maurice Shapiro, after she had had a succession of stillbirths and miscarriages. With that information on hand, Dr. Molthan and the obstetricians knew they had an extraordinary problem to cope with when Mrs. Hutson became pregnant again last spring. She might need blood during delivery, and her baby would almost certainly suffer...
Bedtime Story is a witless, one-joke soporific concocted by a pair of usually wide-awake Hollywood pitchmen. This time out, Producer-Writer Stanley Shapiro (Lover Come Back, That Touch of Mink) and Co-Author Paul Henning have pitched a Mickey to the comic muse. Story unfolds against rear-projection views of the Riviera, where a bogus Highness (David Niven) and an ex-U.S. Army corporal (Marlon Brando) pool their resources to squeeze a living out of wealthy women such as Dody Goodman, an Omaha madcap just born to be trimmed. The thieves fall out, of course, when they...