Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty years ago a squib on the radio page of the old New York Evening World noted that "the story of a cloak-and-suit operator's climb from a dingy tenement to Park Avenue will be dramatized in the Rise of the Goldbergs . . ." With that feeble trumpet toot, the Goldberg family was off on a career that has included a run of 17 consecutive years on radio (only Amos 'n' Andy has run longer), a Broadway play and road company, a comic strip, vaudeville sketches and a television show...
...oyster-white silk Shantung suit made (where better?) in her husband's workrooms; and as an alternate for the skirt a pair of Shantung slacks . . ." Mr. Adrian's equipment for the trek: "a picnic hamper . . . an out-of-doors stove, an alarm-clock wristwatch, a Rube Goldberg knife-is-a-can-opener-is-a-whistle...
...other game Dudley's left-handed slow ball artist, Bob Leverone, led the Commuters to a 7 to 3 victory over Winthrop. Miron Goldberg homered for Dudley, and Al McKenzie homered for the Puritans...
...seven-hit Commuter attack was led by Bill Goldberg with a homer and Bob Hoffman with a triple...
...union men looked over Truman's new bill, and didn't like the provision for federal injunctions, in strikes affecting the national welfare. Harry Truman ordered it out. The union leaders went away happy, with what amounted to an improved Wagner Act. C.I.O. General Counsel Arthur Goldberg called it a "dream bill...