Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While rumors filled the air as to who the next manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers would be, the erstwhile pilot of the Flock still had not announced his plans for sitting out 365 days of suspension from Happy Chandler's portion of organized baseball. University officials were without comment on the CRIMSON's, suggestion that the Lip be offered a job as assistant baseball coach here...
...thousand men of Harvard have long looked to you as the personification of fair play and sportsmanship. Today, two million citizens of Brooklyn dazed, bewildered, almost crushed by the injustice of Leo Durocher's suspension--look to the outside world for leadership. Even Magerkurth in all his Olympian ire never dispatched The Lip to the showers for 154 straight games. That's a lot of ball games, Mr. Bingham...
...Bingham, through your enterprise, Harvard and Brooklyn can clasp hands across a sea of upturned faces. From Williamsburg to Red Hook, from Canarsie to the Gowanus, the eyes of Brooklyn are upon you. You cannot fall them. You must not fail us. The Editors
...sacrificial lamb chosen to bolster Cerdan's U.S. reputation last week was Harold Green of Brooklyn, a better-than-average middleweight who had twice beaten Rocky Graziano. (Rocky knocked him out in their third fight.) In round two, the Frenchman shot three rapid rights to the head that buckled Green's knees; a left hook to the body dumped him at Cerdan's feet.* At the count of ten Green was wavering to his feet, but the referee decided he was through. It was victory No. 98 in Cerdan's 100 fights...
...Happened in Brooklyn (MGM) features Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson at the tops of their respective voices. It needn't have bothered, so far as the box office is concerned, to do anything more. What little more it does is nearly all to the good. Aside from an overdose of jokes about Brooklyn, everything about the picture is not only unobjectionable but, in a modest way, definitely enjoyable...