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Black baseball had been around for years when the Negro Leagues were born in the early 1920s. Barnstorming the countryside in ramshackle buses, black teams played 60 or so league games each season, as well as 140 or more pickup affairs against any team, white or black, that promised to pay. They were second-class citizens with first-class talent, sleeping in ballparks when no lodging was available, eating on their buses when restaurants wouldn't seat them, playing two and even three games a day before driving all night to the next one. The end came shortly after...
When he started building parks in the 1920s, 29 of the 48 states had no parks at all. When he left the state park system in the early 1960s, not only did New York have 2,567,256 acres, but the other states, inspired by his example, had 3,232,701. Viewers of Britain's royal wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral last week were reminded that the church's architect, Sir Christoper Wren, is buried there beneath a marker that reads, "If you seek his monument, look about you." Robert Moses could be buried anywhere...
...hand, palmed magnets and misdirection. Yet even these instructions are offered more in fun than in malice. For early on, the skeptic's skeptic acknowledges that the most obvious evidence of fraud will not budge the True Believer. Instead, Gardner writes for those who agree with the 1920s observation of H.L. Mencken that one horselaugh was worth 10,000 syllogisms. As Science: Good, Bad and Bogus proves, it still is. -By Frederic Golden
...1920s, New York let Robert Moses reshape the urban landscape by creating the parkway and the superhighway. Others imitated that city's highway system, whatever its flaws, because Moses had designed the first successful plans to move cars through a metropolis...
...indignation about the riots that had exploded in Dublin the previous Saturday when 15,000 demonstrators, organized by I.R.A. supporters, marched on the British Embassy. Some 500 of the protesters engaged in pitched battles with the police. In the melee, the fiercest confrontation in the republic since the 1920s, about 200 civilians and policemen were injured, and the damage to property amounted to more than $2 million...