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EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, in 1954. Jackie Robinson boarded a plane with an umpire who had known him since 1946 when Robinson was a rookie in the International League, playing for the Brooklyn Dodger's Montreal Royals farm club. The previous year, 1945, Robinson had met with Branch Rickey, then the Dodgers' general manager, who had told him of his intention to vault a black man across major league baseball's color bar and into a Brooklyn Dodger uniform and of his selection of Robinson as the man to do it. In that meeting, Rickey had also told Robinson that baseballs...
...knew every taunt, dig, threat and underhand device of the bigots." Robinson once said of Rickey. "He shouted their damnable curses at me, then pulled up sharply. 'Can you take it?"' Rickey asked him. "'Can you take it without fighting back...
FAVORITE DRINK: Big Green Rickey (a jigger of Creme de menthe spinach juice a time an olive and an immature grasshopper...
Works donated by collectors and by the artists themselves for the auction represented such artists as Joan Miro whose child-like graphic form went for $450. George Rickey whose kinetic sculpture of coiled wires sold for $1100, and Richard Anuskiewicz whose optical color patterns of acrylic on board brought $2350. Harvard's artists were represented by Toshi Katayama's silkscreen from the Kyoto Series selling for $175 and a color polaroid of toys and toothbrush by photographer Fred Brink...
Cambridge food-eaters are out more for the find than the food. Evidenced by the nightly lines. The Green Turtle seems Cambridge's find of the spring. But The Green Turtle will never be to its discovers what Gigi was to Gaston. Jackie Robinson was to Branch Rickey, and Fanny was to Flo Ziegfield...