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Goodwin learned the game by keeping score in the red score books her father gave her. She listened to each game on the radio and kept meticulous notes so she could recount the game exactly to her father when he came home from work. He did not tell her for many years about the box scores in the newspaper, so she assumed her role as the household Dodgers record-keeper was absolutely vital. Even after she discovered the sports pages and after the games began to be televised, Goodwin held fast to her score books: thus, a historian was born...
Which brings us back to Brand New, an album that both knows its own high stakes and remembers how these girls have kept things running so far. Brand New titillates immediately with its promise of departure and regeneration--it is the first album which Salt and Pepa have sole executive-producing credit--but nonetheless stays carefully within the bounds of fan expectations...
Imagine discovering at the age of 15 that everyone else your age had been going to school for more than ten years while you were kept at home, unknowingly and unknowing. Seems difficult to imagine, right? How is it possible that in this day and age, someone could just not go to school-for 15 years...
...first remember reading about the frogs a year ago. In Minnesota, natives kept discovering frogs in ponds and lakes with developmental abnormalities, from frogs missing limbs to those with eyes growing in their throats. They finally reported this trend to newspapers and some scientists went to work to solve the puzzle. Ironically, the species of frog affected, Xenopus, is frequently used in labs to study the genetics of development, making it even more striking that these frogs, a fairly well-characterized species, have slipped by unnoticed...
DIED. ARTHUR TRACY, 98, radio's sentimental Street Singer, who peddled his wares (remember Marta?) on the airwaves of the 1930s; in New York City. Tracy's identity was kept secret when he made his radio debut...