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According to his doting mother, little Isaac Mizrahi delighted in the daisies on a pair of her mules when he was four. A few years later, he regularly pinched cash from his parents' dressing table while they slept and used it to buy fabric at a Brooklyn dry-goods emporium. At 17 he whipped up a special purple suit to wear on his first trip to Paris. No surprise, then, that young Isaac became a successful fashion designer whose business straddles youthful downtown chic and conservative uptown department stores...
...pretty amazing kid. Born in Brooklyn, New York, O'Grady grew up in Spokane, Washington, with his younger brother and sister and his parents, who divorced in 1990. He went to Lewis and Clark High School, where he played soccer and was the kicker for the football team. "When he was little he wanted to be a ninja, to get into martial arts," says Paul O'Grady...
Robinson became the first player to break the color barrier in professional baseball when he signed with the Montreal Royals, a Brooklyn Dodger minor league team in the International League on October...
...pair diverged as they drove through New Jersey and reached New York. Coleman took a ferry to Manhattan after stopping off to visit his wife in New Brunswick. Hiestand rode a ferry from State Island, riding over the renowned Brooklyn Bridge and connecting with his friend on Long Island. From there, they took another ferry to New London, Conn. and then biked to the town of Bedford, Mass...
...psychoanalysis. "The Babe's id appears to have been relatively unimpeded in its quest for satisfaction," maintained Adam Cox of Lehigh University's psychology department. "Through sex and food, Ruth nurtured the unresolved aspects of his infantile self with abandon." Buddy Hassett, who played for Ruth when he coached Brooklyn in 1938, revealed the true secret of the Babe's gluttony: "He had a great digestive system." As the Babe might have said if he had had the vocabulary: deconstruct that...