Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tons & tons of newspapers for Homer to read when he regained his sight. After midnight, Langley roamed the city, pulling a cardboard box on the end of a long rope. He inspected garbage cans for food, begged meat scraps from a kindly butcher, sometimes walked all the way to Brooklyn to get a loaf of stale bread. On rare occasions he darted into a liquor store, after first peering carefully through the door, and bought a pint of whiskey-"for medicinal purposes...
...years later). Three Men under Williamsburg Bridge, by ten-year-old Walter Kmeta, looked like a Mondrian abstraction-and had more life in it. Yvonne Grogan's black & white Landscape had a sense of balance that a trapeze artist might envy. Hypo and Little Hypo, by Brooklyn's John Pietrowski, 8, for all its blots and blotches, was a study of mother love. Almost all the pictures, selected from 42 New York City settlement-house art classes, had obviously been painted for fun. The best of them will be sent to Paris in May, for an international festival...
...thousands of words a week filed by sports writers were about the Rufe Leonards rather than the Stan Musials. At Pensacola, Fla., the Dodgers had 242 rookies attending a baseball school at an abandoned Navy airbase. One good bet: Negro Jackie Robinson will start the season in Brooklyn as a first baseman...
...line all season, won an honorable mention for All-American in 1944 but was in Japan as an ensign for the 1945 campaign. Last fall he played more minutes than any other man on the Crimson squad. He played two years of high school football for Poly Prep in Brooklyn before coming to Cambridge with the Navy V-12 unit. He was mentioned on several all-city teams during his high school gridiron career...
Actress Laraine Day cleared up a little something that had puzzled people who have never been attracted to the Brooklyn Dodgers' Leo ("Lippy") Durocher. "What do I see in Leo?" echoed the Mormon-bred actress rhetorically. "I see a great charm-a great magnetism, and he doesn't drink or smoke, either...