Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began in the first inning of a four-game series between the rowdy Pittsburgh Pirates and the noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...
...Brooklyn Federal Court, a veteran named Abraham Fishgold, 28, last week won a suit for $94.60 in back pay. Thereby, he lit the fuse of an explosive problem in management-labor relations. The problem: "super-seniority" - meaning that an honorably discharged veteran is entitled to his old job, or a similar one, with his old company for at least a year, even though it means firing an employe with greater seniority. Thus, when Welder Fishgold was laid off from Brooklyn's Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. for ten days, while nonveterans with more seniority were kept on (TIME, June...
...happy working for me. I really am a man of parts, you know," said suave, gentlemanly J. (for Jack) Bates Upham, looking into the gold-digging depths of Estelle's grey eyes. Then he drove her to his old brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, and showed her the roulette table prettily concealed behind the Victorian knickknacks. Estelle, "wearing a décolletage which . . . did a good deal for a roulette player's perspective," shortly became the principal attraction of debonair J. Bates Upham's fashionable gambling joint...
...field. But everyone knew that 18 of them scarcely had a chance against Titan, the trim cherry bay colt with the proud Hanover name, who trotted a record-breaking two-minute mile as a two-year-old last year. His driver was a champ too: gum-chewing Brooklyn-bred Harry Pownall, who at 42 is a youngster among sulky drivers...
Newlywed Pamela Schwartz, whose in-laws live in Brooklyn, said that she wasn't "scared of Jack's family."" She hoped to see the Brooklyn Dodgers play, but added determinedly: "I don't promise to support them just because Jack does." At the Brooklyn end of the wire Mother-in-law Schwartz asked how they (Pam and Sergeant Jack) wanted their bedroom done. Said Pam: "In crushed strawberry and white...