DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, July 16, 2014
-- Harlem Globetrotters' everyday deaf opponent
It was announced yesterday in the newspaper sports pages
that Red Klotz, not deaf, passed away. He owned several
basketball teams that played every day against the Harlem
Globetrotters, having lost to them 14,000 times! But it
was for entertainment, to play dumb so that the fans
can laugh. One of Klotz's earliest players was a deaf
player - Bill Schyman. He toured USA and the world with
Klotz's team and the Globetrotters for two years during
the 1950s. Schyman later coached basketball at Gallaudet.
-- a crazy fad in the British Deaf Community
Fads come and go. The latest fad is pouring water on
own heads. It started by the hearing people in the
United Kingdom, but has lately been copied by the
deaf. They would pour water on themselves, and then
posting these pictures and videos in the deaf community
social media. It will last maybe a few weeks until
they get tired of doing the same thing every day.
Will we see this fad in the American deaf community?
-- Historians love this deaf person
Martin Parry, who is deaf, lives in Swindon,
United Kingdom. It is a city of 200,000 people
about 80 miles from London. He has been saving
old movies of the past days of Swindon, from
1930 through 1960. Hearing viewers are fascinated
by watching the different way of life (cars,
clothes, stores, street traffic, and famous
landmarks that have disappeared). He spends a
lot of time with this hobby.
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