Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Communist Party of Connecticut, like Ruth McKenney's Cleveland Sunday school, turned her out. With her went her husband, Richard Bransten, her Hollywood collaborator and onetime Washington correspondent, under the name of Bruce Minton, for the New Masses. Printing the eviction notice, the Daily Worker accused the Branstens of "attacking the basic line of the Party . . . slandering its leadership." Their conduct, frowned the Worker, was "characteristic of petty-bourgeois radicalism . . . and ultrarevolutionary phrase-mongering...
...Cleveland Air Races, 60,000 spectators snapped their heads from side to side as jet-propelled P-80s, hissing hoarsely, swooped past at nearly 600 miles an hour.* Many wondered how it felt to ride in their hurtling cockpits. Non-jet pilots wondered too, and envied. Handling a P-80, they agreed, was about the most exciting experience a flying man could know...
Washington 8, Cleveland...
...biggest crowd (60,135 fans) ever to see a regularly scheduled pro game jammed Cleveland's Municipal Stadium to watch Cleveland's Browns run away from Miami, 44-0. The big attendance was no lucky accident: Arthur McBride, the Browns's owner, had hired 25 telephone operators to call everybody in Cleveland, to urge them to get out to the game. The runaway score made it no match to watch, but the management had thoughtfully advertised big half-time shows, with everything from fireworks to a leg show by a $50,000 all-girl band. Two days...
...York Yankees, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Rockets, Buffalo Bisons, Cleveland Browns, Miami Seahawks, Los Angeles Dons and San Francisco '49ers...