Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean Tilton, 21, a British war bride arriving on the S.S. Marine Jumper, got her first look at the American shoreline, saw Brooklyn and fainted...
...Venezuela last week, Pitcher Saul Rogovin wished he were back home in Brooklyn. Pitching for the Venezuelan club, he walked the first four men at bat. The fans booed, the umpire threw him out of the game, the Venezuela club owner had him jailed for "not trying...
Then, after accepting the baseball writers' Comiskey Trophy for the Rookie of the Year, Jackie climbed into the new Cadillac that Dodger fans had given him at Ebbets Field, and headed for Hollywood. He will star in a movie tentatively called Brooklyn, U.S.A. and help Negro Sportwriter Wendell Smith finish Robinson's "autobiography...
...refuses to grant Moscow's Patriarch even spiritual authority. "I wouldn't trust any Bolshevik," he mutters. But not all North American bishops share his contempt for the Patriarch's difficult and dangerous game of pattycake with the Kremlin. Explained handsome, popular young Bishop John of Brooklyn last week...
...their 15 years as junkmen in New York, brothers Morris and Julius Lipsett had handled such big jobs as scrapping Manhattan's Second Avenue El, the old approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and the liner Normandie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1946). So they expected no trouble when they bought the decommissioned battleship New Mexico for $381,000 (original cost in 1917: $17,348,200). But last week as the New Mex, shorn of her power plant and with holes bored in her big guns, was towed from Boston toward Newark, trouble hit her like a spread of torpedoes amidships...