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...lieutenant was a Brooklyn white man, Arnold Goldwag, 26, a chain smoking ex-Brooklyn College student with a fertile but peculiar imagination...
...indeed. Last year in their first season in California the San Francisco (ex-New York) Giants finished twelve games off the pace in third place, and the Los Angeles (ex-Brooklyn) Dodgers wound up 21 games behind in seventh. This year the Giants and the Dodgers are chasing a pennant-and catching customers-with all the fire they flashed back at the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field...
Last winter the U.S. 10th Mountain Division-skiers turned mountain fighters -swept across the Apennines, took Mt. Belvedere, which two other divisions had attacked in vain. There died Torger Tokle, the towheaded ex-Brooklyn carpenter who became America's greatest ski jumper. The loth, only U.S. division trained for combat on skis, boasted names big in American skiing: Walter Prager, Percy Rideout, Don Goodman, Weir Stewart, John Litchfield. This winter many of them will be back in competition...
Understandable Man. The third major candidate was someone that any visitor could understand: a triple-dyed, up-from-the-ranks Democrat, and no question about it. He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate...
Died. Technical Sergeant Torger Tokle, 25, towheaded, Norwegian-born ski-jump champion of the Western Hemisphere (289 feet), ex-Brooklyn carpenter; from German shell-fragment wounds; near Monte Torraccio, Italy, as his loth Mountain Infantry Division made a four-mile advance...
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