Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just beyond the outskirts of the Brooklyn community known as Flatbush-but geographically in a section called Crown Heights -there happen to be a few acres of ground called Ebbets Field. Undoubtedly, certain sport-minded residents are interested in what goes on there. But there is a widespread impression that not only Flatbush but all of Brooklyn is merely an extension of that ball park. TIME is one of the worst offenders in disseminating that humiliating propaganda...
Flatbush is a fairly prosperous middle-class residential community made up for the most part of marriage-respecting, law-abiding families. The Dodgers' manager may be a hero to certain thousands of Brooklyn's three million, but an amazing preponderance of the residents are serenely unconcerned about the arrogant gentleman's penny romance...
...Brooklyn...
...trouble with the law was Trinidad's "King of Calypso," Edgar Leon St.-Clair (Stone Cold Dead in the Market). He was picked up in Brooklyn for failing to report to probation authorities (he has been required to report periodically ever since he opened his common-law wife with a can-opener back...
...Manhattan Sir Robert showed off his latest model. Installed on the bridge of the great Queen Elizabeth, it makes wartime radar look like a dim-eyed has-been. When the Elizabeth comes up the Narrows, the "scope" shows a highly detailed map, with buildings, docks, the speedway along the Brooklyn shore. Ships lying at anchor are well-defined shapes, not mere blobs. As the big ship approaches her berth, the scope shows the dock, the ferries, even the small tugs under the Elizabeth's bows...