Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Color. Leo Durocher, the holler guy, has added very little to baseball's respectability. But at a time when sport was empty of color-and the splashes of color made by Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Walter Hagen had faded-he was as refreshing to the bleachers as a bottle of beer on an August afternoon...
...Brooklyn, where the fans are practiced in spotting phonies, color is something that cannot be faked, and a phony is someone who has color but not ability. Durocher has immense ability. In his day he was a crack fielding shortstop, and in eight years as manager he won Brooklyn its first pennant in 21 years (in 1941) and finished worse than third only once...
Carnival in Costa Rica (20th Century-Fox), a happy brawl of tone and color, shows off a few of the complications that may develop when parents arrange marriages for their children and the children arrange their romances otherwise...
...bill seemed to him to be "painstakingly detailed" insuring that federal aid will not mean federal "strings to local schools." He also voiced approval of the stipulation that, in order to receive federal funds, a state must show "reasonable concern for all its children, regardless of race or color...
...statement continued, however, "The Committee hopes that there will henceforth be actual and continued equal treatment of all members of the community, regardless of race, creed or color...