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...picture fleetingly recounts the poverty of Robinson's California childhood, his all-around athletic record at U.C.L.A., his Army service, his difficulties at finding a job. Leaving home and the college sweetheart (Ruby Dee) he is later to marry, he gets on a Negro baseball team, travels in an old bus that doubles as a hotel and restaurant on long hauls through Jim Crow territory. Then Dodger Boss Branch Rickey (Minor Watson) offers him a contract with the Dodgers' Montreal farm team. Rickey's terms: Robinson must stay above reproach while proving himself as a hitter, fielder...
Each kit will contain a "Prelude" for lesson-takers about to retire ("You are going to sleep now. It is getting deeper and deeper and deeper and dee . . ."). Next morning a "Postlude" will explain that in order to make the lesson stick, pupils should read it over quickly in the accompanying printed text...
...view of the strains under which he worked during the war years, Roosevelt showed remarkably good humor during the conferences. When the Russian armies were on the offensive at Stalingrad, he told the reporters: "You can say [I am] dee-lighted, if you want to." And when they questioned him on U.S. dealings with the dubious Admiral Darlan, he retorted with "an old Balkan proverb": "My children, you are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the Devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...race for president of the Class of 1953 are Joyce Bisbee, Isabel Fulton, Eleanor Levine, Elinor Meiss, Martha McCabe, and Dee Waelder. Vice-presidential candidates are Nancy Barrow, Kitty Barbehenn, Wendy Cowie, Diana Crane, Sally Lord, and Holly Walker...
...hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land of Oo-bla-dee...