Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...includes some three all-Navy schools, four Army schools, and two Army-Navy groups, with one more Army group coming in the fall. They include everything from Apprentice Seamen in the V-12 unit to high ranking Army officers in Overseas Administration ration. And then there are two branch units in Harvard's neighboring girl schools; Radcliffe with its well-established contingent of WAVES and Wellesley, with a group of overflow students from the Navy Supply Corps due to disembark on the Wellesley hills in October...
...Branch Rickey calls a team "dangerous" when it is good enough to win games, not good enough to win the pennant. The condition is dangerous because it is comfortable, lulling...
Dodger fans, than which there are none more fanatic, long ago gave Ebbets Field a charm of its own. Branch Rickey, who became president of the Brooklyn club last winter, has made it over into vendetta alley. Hawkeyes from the stands size up each Rickey move; hawkeyes from Rickey's aerie perched over home plate size up every reflex in the stands. There is plenty for each side...
...Illusions, Some Signs. Branch Rickey looks like Lionel Barrymore playing Thaddeus Stevens, talks like an evangelist in a voice that exploits the whisper as aptly as the roar. When he left his world-champion St. Louis Cardinals to take the Brooklyn job, he was in his right mind. One of baseball's most successful businessmen, he had no illusions. Not long before he signed to boss the Dodgers he had said: "Whoever takes over the Brooklyn management will find himself in a burial ground...
Hermanski, Olmo and Schultz fitted the bill. Although the Dodgers continued to lose more games than they won, the newcomers more than upheld their end of the show. This earned Branch Rickey no vote of confidence from the Brooklyn skeptics. Baseball fans, like military armchair strategists, are impatient for quick victories. But Rickey is a realistic general with the long view. He stands firm before Brooklyn like Montgomery before El Alamein...