Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn theater last week, 4,000 junior high school students booed Russia's Andrei Vishinsky and warmly cheered U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. Except for these partisan outbursts, the teen-agers found the long speeches and static drama of the specially arranged telecast of United Nations in Action (weekdays, 11 a.m. & 3 p.m., CBS-TV) neither so funny as Milton Berle nor so exciting as baseball. "Of course," one 14-year-old conceded, "baseball is more known, because it's older than the United Nations...
...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...
Zilahy, a scholarship holder and honors student, lived in Wigglesworth Hall. His home was in Brooklyn, New York...
...fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting to sell...
Phillip Louis Isenberg '51, of Hartford, Connecticut and Winthrop House, yesterday became Harvard's 73rd captain of football by vote of 34 lettermen in Dillon Field House. At the same time, Wilbur Michel Davis '50, of Brooklyn, New York and Lowell House, was voted the first Frederick Greeley Crocker memorial plaque as the team's most valuable player...