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Sportscaster Walter Lanier ("Red") Barber, official announcer over Mutual's WOR of all games of the Brooklyn ("Them Bums") Dodgers (see p. 46), served as commentator with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony this week. He broadcast from the Lewisohn Stadium (where the Philharmonic played) Composer Robert Russell Bennett'...
The Dodgers win.
Unlike the Brooklyn fans whom he ad dresses, Sportscaster Barber is never moved to murder or mayhem when the Dodgers lose. "With me," he says, "base ball is a business. I cannot afford to get too emotional about it."
But what about the National League? Residents of Manhattan last week swore that they could hear agonized screams and groans clear across the East River the day the Brooklyn Dodgers lost a crucial game to the St. Louis Cardinals. Only a fortnight before, the unpredictable Dodgers were leading the league...
Lippy's Boys. There is something about the Cardinals that makes the Dodgers see red. Perhaps it is the fact that several dwindling Dodger stars (including Manager Lippy Durocher) are former members of the St. Louis chain gang, sold down the river. Perhaps it irks them to see up...