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Like Dinah's drive, Dinah's rise has been more of a trajectory than a career. In two years Miss Shore has become the No. 1 female blues singer. She queens the juke boxes within an inch of Bing Crosby ("than whom," says Dinah, "there is no whomer...
Brooklyn had its wind knocked out last week. The Dodgers lost the National League pennant to the smashing St. Louis Cardinals on the last day of the season. But the big loss was the Big Wind: the Dodger president, Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail. Lieut. Colonel MacPhail, 52, reports next week...
The Beautiful Bums. Then he moved in on Brooklyn, whose seventh-place Dodgers were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co., creditor for half a million dollars. MacPhail-who is never better than when talking hardheaded characters out of important sums-actually sweet-talked the Brooklyn Trust Co. into putting...
"The Verce of Brooklyn." Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, 34, had been Elson's teammate in broadcasting the Series ever since 1936. A wavy-haired, wise and wide-awake guy from Mississippi, he is the "Verce of Brooklyn" by virtue of having been official announcer at the Dodgers' baseball...
That voodoo did it. Wearing Coaker Triplett's No. 20 last week, Cooper allowed only three hits (no Dodger reached second base), gave only one walk, scored two runs himself, shut out the Dodgers, 3-to-0. That mauling reduced Brooklyn's Bums-ten games ahead of St...