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Dudley flashed fine fielding, and the pitching of Arnold Bronstein '37 was effective, allowing the hard-hitting Deacons only two hits, although two of the runs resulted from passes...
...calling himself Bronstein entered the shop and asked for a job. My uncle immediately put him to work pressing pants. However, Bronstein, or Trotsky, seemed less interested in pants pressing than in the Communist literature which he read in his spare time. He had been working only a few days when my uncle returned to the shop after a brief absence to find the room in smoke, the pants burning, and Trotsky in the corner reading his literature...
...arrival in Manhattan of Mr. & Mrs. Leon Trotsky as exiles was uneventful. He was born a Bronstein, she a Rosenfeld, and The Bronx is full of Bronsteins and Rosenfelds. Among these kinsmen some soon appeared who helped Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky find a suitable three-room flat on Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, enabled them to buy $200 worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting...
...these rapturous radicals last week gentle, refined, soft-spoken Lev Davidovich Bronstein said, in the fatherly fashion of an old maestro soothing impatient pupils who want to play the violin before they know how, that he wants to go to New York...
Trotsky & Trotskyism, Lev Davidovich Bronstein was born 57 years ago in the Ukraine of peasant parents so prosperous that today in Russia they would be exterminated as kulaks. At only 19, this brilliant little Jew was already in the custody of Tsarist police as a revolutionist of mark. Bronstein's various escapes from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name...