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Mohibulla, 27-year-old professional at the Harvard Club of Boston, is unbelievably fast. His uncle Hashim, 50, can still match him in shots if not in steps. Hashim is pro at Detroit's Uptown Athletic Club...
...Nigger Heaven, The Tattooed Countess) of his own Prohibition-era bohemian ways, at 52 launched yet another career as a renowned, and certainly magnanimous, portrait photographer (he gave his work to his subjects free of charge), all the while amassing enough Negro manuscripts and phonograph records from his old uptown haunts to establish the U.S.'s largest collection of Harlem's home-grown art at Yale University; in Manhattan...
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...white downtown New Yorker who has grown weary and annoyed with a deluge of overblown, excited and conflicting newspaper reports on "those uptown riots," I was startled and shaken to read your Harlem story [July 31]. Your clear and unsentimental reporting on the recent events had me applauding your integrity. It was the most poignant and powerful piece of writing I've read anywhere on the subject...
...public defender of "old style" Dixieland. Staged at midnight in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the event had all the makings for a Great Moment in jazz history. Bob Crosby and Johnny Mercer came in from the West Coast. Woody Herman and his 16-piece band were bussed uptown between shows at a Times Square jazz emporium. All told, 43 musicians gathered to pay homage, many of them the founding fathers of "hot jazz," ragtime's carefree child born in the backrooms and basements of Chicago in the mid-1920s...