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Ray Bolger stole the show in "On Your Toes." He stole the show in "The Wizard of Oz." He can now be seen stealing the show at the Shubert. Flicking his gawky legs about the stage with more finesse than ever before, second-billed Bolger is farther out in front...
At 5:30, one afternoon last week, Brooklyn stood stock still. Housewives sat breathlessly at their radios, putting off putting on the potatoes. Husbands, on their way home, lingered around parked taxis or tiptoed into jammed barrooms to join already bewitched citizens staring stupidly into space. The Dodgers were playing...
It was the last of the ninth. Old Tex Carleton was still pitching. The Dodgers were still ahead, 3-to-0. Cincinnati's Werber was at bat. A strike, then a grounder, right into Cookie Lavagetto's mitt. Frey came up. A strike, two balls, another strike, another...
For Brooklyn, it was a terrific day. Not only was this the Dodgers' first no-hit, no-run victory since famed Nap Rucker turned the trick in 1908* but it was their ninth successive victory this season-an opening winning streak equaled only once before (New York Giants of...
Brooklyn had nurtured flashy teams before. In 1890, the year Brooklyn joined the National League, their ball club, then known as the Bridegrooms, ran away with the pennant. At the turn of the century, under foxy Ned Hanlon, Brooklyn won the pennant twice (1899 and 1900), were promptly nicknamed the...