New York Scene
SAT.. AUGUST 29, 1981
NEW YORK, NY Some
of the top names in show
business and government, in-;
eluding President Reagan!
and Vice President Bush, will
join the evening of jazz at the:
White House in a special:
tribute to Lionel Hampton,,
to benefit his center in.
Harlem, on Thursday,!
September 10. It's a reward:
for Lionel serving as a cam-;
paign. chairman in New York;
for the Reagan-Bush ticket.
Former Ambassador An
drew Young, already ahead
in the polls for Mayor of
Atlanta in this fall's elec
tions, had gained support in
recorded messages from
former Preisdent Jimmy i
Carter. Andy, incidentally,
is slated to come to New
York before the local
September 10th primary, to
aid, his former college
classmate, David N. Dinkins,
in his bid for the Democratic
nomination for Manhattan
Borough President.
One of the city's biggest
personal injury awards was
Sunday
August 30, 1981
given last week to Mrs. Con
nie Peer, a bacteriologist for
the-city Health Department,
when a jury awarded her
$700,000 for injuries when a
Second Avenue bus broke
her back in two places as it
drover over street potholes.
Another $23,000 was iven to
her husband, Beverly, a bass
player for singer Bobby
Short.
Show Business: Popular
tap dancer Honi Coles off to
Los Angeles to do the
Rodney Dangerfield show
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before spending a month in
September in
London.. Johnny Mathis
celebrating his 25th year in
show business. ..They , are
now casting for actors for
"The First," a musical to
open in November on Broad
way on the life of the late
Jackie Robinson. David
Alan Grier, a recent Yale
graduate with no profes
sional acting experience, has
landed the Robinson
role. ..Robin Harmon, a
24-year-old recent Howard
University graduate, has
been selected as the first
black Miss Maryland, to
compete in the Miss America
contest next month in Atlan
tic City. She was previously
Miss Georgetown and Miss
Black D.C....CBS newsman
Ed Bradley took unto
himself a bride in London,
the former Priscilla
Coolidgc.Ray Charles sing
ing deep blues since a Los
Angeles court ordered him to
up his monthly payments
from $400 to $1,500 monthly
in support for his 17-year-old
daughter.. .Gov. Hugh Carey
promised singer Hazel Scott
he would move a 23-foot
piano she has into the Gover
nor's Mansion in Albany.
Angel-Carey and . Miss
Scott's late former husband,
Adam Clayton Powell, were
close friends in Congress.
Congratulations due to the
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
which presented checks
totalling $600,000 to the Ur
ban League, NAACP, and
the United Negro College
Fund, at thpir recent
Washington convention.
The Black Owned Com
munications Alliance
(BOCA), which recently
hired Terrie M. Williams as
executive director, launching
a major
Newspaper
Thursday, September 17,
asking all black Americans to
buy only black newspapers to
demonstrate the importance
of the Black Press. Black
radio and television also
cooperating.
Job Row: Bronx
Democrats have named
-veteran patent attoryen
Hansel J. McGee, who is also
a member of the city's Taxi
and Limosine Commission,
as a candidate for the Bronx
Gvil Court. He is active in
the boro's Jackson
Democratic Club...NAACP
state president Mrs. Hazel
Dukes has demanded that
millionnaire builder Donald
Trump, who recently got a
$50 million" tax concession,
to open his employment
records to check on possible
discrimination. He was
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recently charged with bias by
demonstrations. Former
boxing champ Archie Moore
has been given a
$37,000-a-year job by the
Reagan Administration to
launch7 a pilot program in j
California to help youths,
fight drugs... William
"Billy" Pickens has resigned
as chairman of the board of
the Studio Museum in
Harlem, the second chair
man to quit in less than a
year. ..Janet Cooke, who lost
her job and the Pulitzer Prize
earlier this year because of
her series about a non
existent heroin addict, and
the Washington Post are be
ing sued by a D. C. Board of
Education member for $1.7
million in compensatory
damages and $7 million in
punitive damages over the ar
ticles. "I Am Your Florist" by
Buster Cards, is the name of
Harlem's newest full-service
florist showp, at 138th Street
and 7th Avenue, which opens
its doors the week before
Labor Day.
It was wall-to-wall atten
dance at the La Famille last
week when rising globe
trotting author and movie
producer Rudolph Johnson,'
Jr., held an autographing
party for his new book,
Opium, which traces the
world's narcotics traffic.
The book is destined to
become a best seller and
already there are discussions
for a possible movie version.
Historians now feel
definitely assured that a
black man, Abraham Pearce,
was among the first settlers
in 1623 in Plymouth, Mass.,
home of the nation's foun
ding fathers. The records
revealed that he was a free
man, voted, and owned pro
perty, and they are now put
ting him in the record books.
Former Manhattan
Borough President Percy E.
Sutton, perhaps one of the
nation's fastest rising
businessmen, black or white,
engaged in an exciting new
project that will present a
new concept in cable televi
sion. His Black Music Cable
Television Network will have
disc jockey format with news
and commentaries focusing
on the black community.
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