Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they get one pitcher to help 21-game winner Bill Voiselle, the New York Giants might climb upstairs. The Philadelphia Phils must struggle along without their one power-hitter, Ron Northey; the Boston Braves can only hope that some of their 21 rookies will blossom; the 'Brooklyn Dodgers will try to get along on fanatical fan-enthusiasm and the league-leading (.357) bat of Dixie ("Pride of Flatbush") Walker...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy McGuire; TIME...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Dorothy Mc-Guire; TIME...
Treasured Tatters. G.I. tastes, says Editor Stern, have followed those of civilians pretty closely, except that the soldiers have little use for war books. In a list that includes most recent bestsellers, many classics and a few anthologies, the most popular to date is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. One marine, after more than two years in the Pacific, read A Tree and claimed that it changed his whole life...