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"Besides politics," Leuchtenberg says, "my only other hobbies are following the Brooklyn Dodgers (I must have listened to all 154 games last year) and reading the CRIMSON every morning at 11:00 a.m. over a cup of coffee at Hazen's."
Married. Ralph Branca, 25, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, who last month threw the home-run ball that gave the Giants the National League pennant; and Ann Mulvey, 20, daughter of James A. Mulvey, one-fourth owner of the Dodgers; in Brooklyn.
White House correspondents, watching a pressroom TV set while the New York Giants battled the Brooklyn Dodgers, got a special summons to the office of Presidential Press Secretary Joe Short. Short looked gravely through his spectacles, and began reading from a paper before him. "Another atomic bomb has recently been...
Help from the Dodgers. The turning point for the Giants came just when things looked darkest. One night in mid-August, they were 12½ games behind, and they had just taken a three-game whipping from the Dodgers. Through the dressing-room door, the Giants could hear the Dodger...
Slowly, then faster & faster as the Dodgers faltered, the Giants closed the gap, winning 37 of their last 44 games, tied the Dodgers at season's end and forced a playoff. During that frantic final week, Durocher repeated persistently: "Don't interview me. I'm not doing...