Sandman Sims, the celebrated tap dancer and Apollo Theater legend, died May 20 in the Bronx. He was 86, although he long maintained that his age was ” a matter of opinion. “ For decades Mr. Sims was ” ...

Shock and awe are terms more tastefully and accurately applied to the emotions many New Yorkers felt on certain May nights in 1969, when Leticia Jay presented some of the greats of tap—men whose ...