Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
After that, Dolly Thackrey reached out. She snapped up some of the Chicago Daily News's once famed foreign staff, expanded the Post's foreign coverage and started a syndicate. She bought Brooklyn's tiny radio station WLIB and the Bronx Home News, a neighborhood paper that concentrates on marriages and bingo parties. She tried and failed to buy the San Francisco Chronicle, then as a consolation prize bought two radio stations, Los Angeles' KMTR and San Francisco's KYA (FCC approval of the purchases is pending...
Chief beneficiaries would be Walter Rothschild, president of Federated's Brooklyn subsidiary, Abraham & Straus, and Federated's famed Lazarus brothers: Fred Jr., $100,000-a-year president; Simon, $100,000-a-year president of Federated's Columbus (Ohio) subsidiary, F. & R. Lazarus & Co.; Robert, $75,000-a-year vice president of F. & R. Lazarus; and Jeffrey, $75,000-a-year vice president of Federated's Cincinnati subsidiary, John Shillito & Co. The plan, said Federated, would provide "those executives with a greater incentive for resourceful and imaginative employment of their skills...
Many of the world's famous and infamous men have been epileptics: St. Paul, Mohammed, Moses, Luther, Loyola, Alexander, Caesar, Peter the Great (see BOOKS), Napoleon and possibly Hitler.-In the Medical Record, Brooklyn's Dr. Edward Podolsky explains why epilepsy may be a spur to greatness. Epileptic fits result from a disturbed electrical equilibrium in the brain. Electrical energy continually piles up in the cortex (brain covering), is discharged at irregular intervals in fits. Many epileptics are nobodies, but the brilliant ones drive themselves like maniacs while the energy piles higher & higher...
...years in the major leagues as infielder, outfielder, champion base-stealer, he became manager of the Richmond Colts in the Piedmont League. There he distinguished himself by getting thrown out of baseball for a year for slugging an umpire. Last year he came back as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Last week, 14 days after being traded down the river to the hopeless Philadelphia Phillies, he became a big-league manager...