Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston 3, Brooklyn...
Boston 5, Brooklyn...
...Theater television became a reality. An audience at Broadway's Paramount Theater watched a telecast of a boxing bout in Brooklyn on the theater's screen. It was the first time that full-screen television had been shown in a major theater as the event was taking place.The image was transferred from tube to film by a special photographic and developing process, then "fed continuously to a projector and flashed to the screen. The whole converting operation (tube-to-film-to-screen) took only 66 seconds. Images were bright and well-defined, and the sneak preview was hailed...
...thing nobody could understand was a strange lack of hurly-burly in Brooklyn, where silent Leo (The ex-Lip) Durocher, back-room exile, was busy fitting young arms and legs (products of the Dodgers' farm system) into his batting order. A reporter asked him: "Are you going to worry every club to death, like last year?" Answered The Lip: "I wasn't here last year. Remember...
Philadelphia 6, Brooklyn...