Word: littman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jewish kid on Manhattan's Lower East Side ("In New York State," he says, "that is like being born in a log cabin"). Of his boyhood, Javits recalls that "the most money I ever had was a penny-and that only on a special occasion." His mother, Ida Littman Javits, had been abandoned by her parents in Palestine and forced to start work at the age of six. Illiterate until she was past 50, she helped support her family by selling dry goods from a pushcart (last winter, on a trip to Israel, Javits stopped in Safed to dedicate...
...base in all but the third and eighth innings, but stranded 14. A three-base error by left-fielder Dick Hoffman and singles by Jack Kirkwood and Roger Morgan resulted in two Brandeis runs in the first inning. Four singles followed with a double by second baseman Harvey Littman brought three more tallies for the Judges in the top of the second...