Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department and the C.I.O.) simply by the addition of lettering. Like most propaganda art, Shahn's suffers from sameness of theme, but sometimes it offers a concise pictorial report as well as a message. Shahn learned to draw the hard way; when he was growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs used to make him draw chalk portraits of their favorite athletes on the sidewalk. Accuracy was imperative, and Shahn never forgot the lesson. Although Shahn's use of color has gradually become so arbitrary as to verge on artiness, his draftsmanship is often realistic and clear...
America's soccer team, which very seldom has gone anywhere in world competition, is picked in regional tryouts similar to those of baseball. The best men in the regionals then go to the finals--in 1936 it was in Brooklyn--when the final squad is picked and a couple of weeks then remain for the coaches to make the players into a team. In 1936 Andrew Guyda, the Crimson Freshman soccer coach, played wing and halfback for the American team which lost to India, the squad which eventually copped the world title...
...Brooklyn, St. Luke's German Evangelical Reformed Church was about to move to new quarters. But before moving, the Rev. Benney Benson "deconsecrated" the old building with a service of his own devising (among other things, he threw a bottle of ink at an effigy of the devil). Reason: the athletic club which had bought the building planned to set up a bar on the premises...
...year later when Duquesne gave up formal football because of the war, Buff moved into the play for pay league once more. He served as an assistant in Brooklyn and then had a successful year as head tutor of the Cleveland Rams. He was drafted into the navy in 1945 and assigned as in instructor in the V-12 unit at Columbia where he helped Lou Little as backfield coach. Last year, after his discharge from the service, Little kept him on as first assistant and indicate that he was slated as the next boss of Morningside Heights...
...Retreads. Brooklyn's fatherly Manager Burt Shotton, 62, is a man who had known failures too. A few years ago, hot-tempered fans booed his third-base coaching at Cleveland. He and Bucky had both sunk as low as anyone could in the big leagues: both had suffered as managers of the lowly Philadelphia Phillies. Both had been demoted to the minors and then bounced back. Burt's workaday formula is the same as Bucky's. Says Burt: "When a guy does something wrong, that's no time to get on him. That...