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There was little of Flatbush left in the dark-eyed, glamour-bobbed brunette who called herself Yvette Madsen. Only a hint of Canarsie in her consonants, a touch of Gowanus in her vowels remained to mark her as plain Jane Noack, a kid born in Brooklyn 22 years ago. Yvette was glad enough to have left Jane behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Dialect of the People | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

...never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner (out of print, he has been called worse names), was not the kind of person who invited neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Friday | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Rickey simply wanted to get rid of Durocher; it was a way for Rickey to take some of the heat off himself. The fans were staying away from Ebbets Field; Rickey had cut down the number of cheaper seats, and sold down the river such Flatbush heroes as Dixie Walker and Eddie Stanky. And the Dodgers were wallowing in next to last place. Rickey couldn't help remembering the calm, sure way Burt Shotton had run the team (and won a pennant) when Durocher was kicked out of baseball last season (TIME, April 21, 1947). But Leo wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Friday | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...special view of the city, paused in his labors long enough to declare that the TIME story did not express the community spirit of New York sufficiently. A surprising number of TIME-reading residents, however, sent in a quiet plug for their particular "dignified street in Flatbush," thus suggesting that, large as it is, New York City does have a communal spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...give battle, even the Dodgers were on their dignity and obviously respectful. By the second game they were playing like demoralized sandlotters, dropping sure catches, and swinging feebly at the plate. It wasn't until they moved to Ebbets Field and breathed again the stimulating air of Flatbush that the Dodgers recovered their normal insolence. By then the odds were 6 to 1 against them: no team since 1921 had ever lost the first two games and won a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nothing Like It | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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