Word: ll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called the Volunteer Corps of St. George, to rebuild Greek roads. Last February, as Paul outlined the plan to a TIME correspondent, Frederika interjected: "And of course, my dear, you will go out and set an example with a shovel." "Oh yes," he said, "and we'll get some of our Ministers out there too." And both, who make no secret of impatience with bureaucratic ways, chuckled at the thought...
...block west of Ebbets Field, at the Left Field Bar & Grill, a grim conversation was in progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...
...imagine admiringly what is being said. Confesses Leo: "Sometimes, the ump admits to me, 'I missed that one,' before I even start to tell him what a woodenhead son-of-a-bitch he is. But I keep on talking ... maybe I'm telling him I'll buy him a beer after the game...
According to Rickey's "plan" (regarded with some cynicism in Brooklyn, where every loser chants "Wait till next year, we'll moider 'em"), the postwar Dodgers were not expected to win their first pennant until 1948. The Dodgers were a disorganized team last year, full of old men and greenhorns, but with them Durocher almost upset the plan. The Dodgers were in first place on the Fourth of July, by which time, according to an old but questionable tradition, pennant races are decided. (Durocher Dodgers, better at the start than in the stretch, have been first...
...emotions. Tom Connally, manager of the Crimson nine, after expressing doubt that Leo would accept the job, came up with the newest interpretation. "If we get Leo on the first base coaching box and maybe Laraine Day at third, we better give our own coaches ironclad contracts or they'll get squeezed out of their position...