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...Yardlings asserted themselves in the third period as a series of line drives, and a 35-yard pass from Dick Rinella to Bronstein set up a touchdown late in the fourth quarter. Larry Repsher moved the ball to the one-yard line, and Rinella took it over on a quarterback sneak...
...left in a kind of "ecstasy." At this stage many an older reader will recognize the names. An ex-anarchist named Michael Gold was converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste of vicarious power and destiny when he heard that this shabby comrade had become the great Trotsky, Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
...Bronstein, who came to the U.S. from Russia at 14, started out by selling newspapers. Once when he saw the late great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, leave the old Southern Hotel, Sammy pretended not to know him and dogged him all the way to the office, insisting that he buy a Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was so impressed by his salesmanship that he put him on a $2.50-a-week retainer as a newsboy...
Sammy learned to gauge his customers. The late Joe McAuliffe, then covering politics for the Post-Dispatch and later managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, once invaded Sam's bedroom for an urgent loan. "My pants were on the foot of the old brass bed." Bronstein recalls. "I told Joe to help himself to whatever he needed. He was a great newspaperman, and I didn't have to ever worry about an honest count from...
...Bronstein stopped lending money by 1950, but by then the bloom was off the peach. "Heywood Broun put me out of business when he organized the Newspaper Guild," he says. "When the boys began making enough money to tide them over from one payday to the next, there was no more need for my services...