Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preachers throughout the U. S. compose the commission, under an executive committee of eleven. Chairman is William C. Redfield of Brooklyn, N. Y., Secretary of Commerce in the Wilson Cabinet, president of the National Institute of Social Sciences, author (Dependent America, We and the World). Other committeemen include: Rev. Charles Stedman MacFar-land of Mountain Lakes, N. J., General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches and National Field Scout Commander of the Boy Scouts of America; Margaret Tyson Applegarth of Rochester. N. Y., children's author (The School of Mother's Knee); Stanley High, brisk young editor...
Artificial Ear. A voice speaks through earphones, a stick like a metal pencil moves by electricity between fingers that lightly hold it, shaping words. By this device, recently perfected by Western Electric and installed by Paramount in 30 seats of its Brooklyn theatre, deaf people can try to make sense of talkies...
...bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...
Batters. The hitters have been thoroughly enjoying themselves. Last weekend "Babe" Herman of Brooklyn was leading both leagues with an average of .404. Batter Herman's record is all the more remarkable in that he is practically a one-handed hitter. Just before bat touches ball he takes his right hand off the handle and is swinging only with his left arm at the moment of contact...
Pattison pitcher Brooklyn...