Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twice on a Stretcher. Fifteen months before, Boxer Doyle had been carried from 'the same ring. He woke up in St. Vincent Charity Hospital and his head hurt; he had been hit a terrific wallop by Brooklyn's Artie Levine. The doctors said he had a brain concussion. Although he was only 21, Doyle had never been quite the same after that. Punch-drunk Jimmy wandered back home to Los Angeles, where his friends called him by his real name-Jimmy Delaney...
...Episcopal minister, they were quite apt, as she now recalls it, to discuss such recondite matters as literary style and changing concepts of right & wrong. There were no Sunday papers "in that happy time which has since been called the Gay Nineties," but in the Alsop house in Brooklyn Heights there was a set period of meditation and contemplation called Searching Out the Heart. There was also a great deal of fun, but very little nonsense, in the Victorian childhood which Author Gulielma Alsop recalls with understandable nostalgia in Deer Creek...
Deer Creek is by no means this year's version of life with father. Miss Alsop writes with great charm of city life in Brooklyn and country life in Pennsylvania, of the place that the church and religion had in the life of half a century ago. Readers will find a rounded picture of a full and satisfying kind of U.S. family life that is rapidly dying...
...Four days later, Blackwell had another no-hitter in his grasp. Then with one out in the ninth, Brooklyn's pesky Eddie Stanky bounced a single through the pitcher...
There were two hot horses in the Brooklyn Handicap last week, and if either won, Whirlaway's alltime money-winning record ($561,161) was sure to fall. Texas-born Assault, a chestnut, the swiftest thing on horseshoes in 1947, needed only $22,591 to catch up with Whirlaway. Stymie, another Texas horse -who usually does better when Assault is not around-needed even less...