Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Welcomed tall, sad-looking W. Averell Harriman to his Cabinet, kidded him about his favorite ball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, losing the pennant to Missourian Truman's favorite, the St. Louis Cardinals...
Murray Lerner '48, 19, Brooklyn, Adams House, English, Redbook, PBH, Student Progressive...
...Whether Brooklyn wins or loses this week's playoffs, Dodger fans have a really rosy future to contemplate during the long winter months. The twelve-club farm chain collected by President Branch Rickey is busting with young talent. Most likely to succeed: Negro Jackie Robinson...
...Brooklyn's chief librarian had had enough. Last week Dr. Milton James Ferguson announced that henceforth Brooklyn libraries would turn deaf ears to telephoned quiz queries from radio fans...
...cause of Dr. Ferguson's long-suffering : WOR's Tello-Test quiz. On this five-a-week show, announcers telephone a housewife, offer $5 if she can answer a question in one minute. If she fails, another $5 is added, another number is called. Brooklyn listeners telephone the library as soon as they hear the question, hoping their number may be next. The library's calm is shattered during every broadcast. Concluded Dr. Ferguson stiffly: "The identification of 'Lemonade Lucy'* or the architect of the White House . . . seems of small moment...