November 26: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

November 26, 2023 Brooklyn Eagle History

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ON THIS DAY IN 1932, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “WARM SPRINGS, GA. — President-elect Roosevelt’s disclosure that he has read 10 books on the Russian problem and is giving it considerable attention is regarded here as a definite trial balloon to test out the currents of present day opinion on the question of recognition of the Soviet regime. It is certainly obvious to those who have been following the situation that for the first time since the revolution a President of the United States will approach the situation in a sympathetic frame of mind. To say that the Governor favors or leans toward recognition is to go beyond what is warranted by the facts in the case, but it is becoming clearer every day that Roosevelt believes a definite stand on the question during his administration will be inevitable and that it will be impossible to fall back on the Hughes conditions to which President Hoover adhered. The President-elect’s conviction that he will have to meet the problem with a new approach is said to be based on the realization that the Soviet Government, born of revolution, will survive.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1932, the Eagle reported, “LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it comes to marrying into a family, Harryette H. Post, former Denver heiress, holds some sort of record. First she married one brother, then another, and now she has the third brother for a husband. Despite her three marriages and two divorces her name is still de Tarr — this time Beverly Keith de Tarr. First it was Mrs. James Major de Tarr of San Francisco and then Mrs. Noble Arthur de Tarr of Wilmington, Del. Her third husband is a Los Angeles real estate broker. ‘Yes, Miss Post has married three of my boys and we all are still friends,’ said Mrs. Maude de Tarr, local resident. As for the Denver heiress, she says: ‘When I was divorced the first time another de Tarr naturally seemed to loom up as my chief interest in life. They didn’t seem to want to let me out of the family. We are all good friends but I know at last I am completely happy with my third and last de Tarr-Beverly. In the old days I thought of him more as a brother but now — well, you can understand.’”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1936, the Eagle reported, “Is the pendulum swinging? Will hockey predominance switch to these United States, leaving the one-time stronghold of the sport, the big, wide-open country across the Northern border, in the shadow? The Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup last year, and the two teams which battle in the Garden tonight — Rangers and Americans — are turning the league upside down these days. Besides that, the Dominion’s three teams — Maroons, Canadiens and Maple Leafs — have all been thumped in the Garden this year. There are five big league teams in the U.S.A. Of course, it’s easy to point out that most of the players, no matter what suits they wear, are Canadians. Only a few, like Carl Voss (Maroons), Doc Romnes, Alex Levinsky and Mike Karakas (Hawks) and Roger Jenkins (Canadiens), were born in the U.S.A. But when you learn that an ace like Sweeney Schriner, A’s wingman, who led the league in scoring last year, learned hockey at Junction City, Kas., and that the Colvilles-Shibicky line which is hoisting the Rangers to success played for the Crescent A.C. and regards New York and Brooklyn as home almost as much as the Provinces, an idea of the changing trend is grasped.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1945, the Eagle reported, “The first of 1,500 former service men who will be added to the critically undermanned city Police Department in the next month were to report today to Manhattan headquarters, as police started on the road to cracking two of Brooklyn’s most recent slayings — those of Al (Bummy) Davis in a bar and grill holdup and 16-year-old Susan Scanga, whose body was found in a Greenpoint dump. After short training courses at the police academy, the new patrolmen, all of whom had passed police mental examinations before being taken by the armed forces, will be assigned to beats throughout the city. The unprecedented action was revealed in the Brooklyn Eagle yesterday before Mayor LaGuardia announced it on his regular broadcast.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “CHICAGO (U.P.) — Color television will make the black and white family portrait ‘obsolete almost overnight,’ a prominent photographer predicts. Paul L. Gittings, former president of the Photographers’ Association of America, said ‘The viewing public will become so accustomed to color television so rapidly that the photographic industry will be hard pressed to keep pace with the consequent demand for color photos.’ Weddings and society functions in the future, Gittings said, ‘will be recorded exclusively in color. Direct color formal portraits of the bride and direct color or stereo-color candids of the ceremonies will be must items in the wedding budget.’”

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NOTABLE PEOPLE BORN ON THIS DAY include former CIA Director Porter Goss, who was born in 1938; comedian and impersonator Rich Little, who was born in 1938; Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John McVie (Fleetwood Mac), who was born in 1945; Pro Football Hall of Famer Art Shell, who was born in 1946; Pro Football Hall of Famer Harry Carson, who was born in 1953; NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett, who was born in 1956; “NYPD Blue” star Garcelle Beauvais, who was born in 1966; “Unwritten” singer Natasha Bedingfield, who was born in 1981; and singer and actress Rita Ora, who was born in 1990.