Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RAKOWITZKY Brooklyn...
Zinc Trap. In Brooklyn, 280-pounder Bertha Singer found herself stuck in the bathtub, was wrenched by her son, tugged by a police emergency squad, lubricated with cooking oil, after 17 hours was pried...
Stone Cold Dead is the biggest Calypso hit since Rum & Coca-Cola (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945). It is also the first big success of 45-year-old Wilmoth Houdini, a Brooklyn-born Trinidad Negro who lives in Manhattan's Harlem half the year, the other half in Trinidad. Houdini, who has recorded 800 Calypso songs, expects to make $40,000 from...
Last fall, Brooklyn's Branch ("The Brain") Rickey tossed a bomb into baseball and stuck his fingers in his ears. He signed up Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop and onetime football star at U.C.L.A., for his Montreal farm club (TIME, Nov. 5). It was the first time a Negro had ever played Class AA ball without being passed off as a Cuban, a Mexican, or an Indian and there were a good many skeptics who said that it wouldn't work. By last week some of them would admit they were wrong: Jackie Robinson was the International...
Although not a power hitter (he has only three home runs), Robinson makes up the difference by beating out bunts, stretching singles into doubles and doubles into triples. Last week, with Montreal 15 games out front and the parent Brooklyn Dodgers puffing to stay one jump ahead of the Cardinals, Boss Rickey asked himself whether he should call Robinson up to the majors but apparently thought better of it. But even if Robinson got no chance at a Brooklyn uniform until 1947, he had already accomplished his mission. Other big-league moguls were already hunting around for Negro rookies...