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...Aaronian, who learned of the attack on a car radio as he was returning from a YMCA sports convention, said the most memorable image of that day was hearing former President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 call for war against Japan...
...most powerful feeling of all was the reverberation of Roosevelt's voice making the announcement," Aaronian said...
...journalistic obsession with anniversaries has reached Ruthian (or should | I say "Aaronian") proportions this year as sports pages are running day-by- day updates on the fabled 1941 season. Personally, I have already overdosed on Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak and Ted Williams' .406 batting average. But if you must read one book on the subject, let it be Baseball in '41 by Robert W. Creamer (Viking; $19.95). A veteran sportswriter now pushing 70, Creamer artfully weaves his own 1941-college-boy-on-the-cusp-of -war persona throughout the narrative. There are wonderful asides, ranging from...
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