Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico, where art sometimes crowds murder and politics off the front page, jailbirds are turning their cells into studios. Last week modern Mexican Painter Rufino Tamayo (TIME, Feb. 17), who now teaches art in Brooklyn, was combing Mexico's prisons for new talent. Tamayo was sure he would find enough for a fall show at the Brooklyn Museum Art School...
...Spanish Harlem." The Okies were mainly California's problem. The problem of the Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...
...addition, the convening Missouri Synod Lutherans harked back the hundred years and wondered at the Synod's present size compared with its mustard-seed beginnings. Exclaimed the Rev. Dr. Arthur Brunn of Brooklyn: "Some said the new Synod was too straitlaced, too hidebound to live in the land of the free...
Even the most loyal of Ebbets Field fans has a hard time forgiving the Brooklyn Dodgers' worst habit: just about this time of year, when they seem to be heading for the pennant, they have a tendency to run out of steam. Last year, as in 1942, it was the St. Louis Cardinals who took the flag away from them. Last week the first-place Dodgers and the second-place Cards met in a crucial three-game series. By the time the series had ended, it looked as if the Dodgers might have cured their old weakness, would have...
...Respect. Shotton, a kind of Flatbush Cincinnatus, was called from his Florida farm last spring by Boss Branch Rickey to take charge of the Dodgers, after Manager Leo Durocher was suspended for a year (TIME, April 21). Shotton, semi-retired after a long career as outfielder, coach, manager and Brooklyn scout, scarcely knew his players' first names. At first he leaned heavily for advice on Stanky and Pitcher Hugh Casey, but now he runs the team by himself. Only once-after the Dodgers had lost four straight to the Cards in June-has Boss Rickey called Shotton into...