Word: al
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the war, rotary traffic around the subway kiosk was attempted with disastrous results. At that time, there were trolleys to cope with, and the experiment permitted two-way traffic on the avenue nearest the Coop. The end result was only more confusion, and the police, city planners, et al, went back to the method of directing traffic with the help of a traffic booth and loudspeakers...
Columbia's most capable lineman is Co-Captain Jim Ward, an agressive pass-catcher and the Lions' only experienced offensive end. The other end is Wes Bomm, a 6-3 soph. The tackles are two converted ends, Al Cannon and sophomore Gerry Cozzi; John Bacauskas, a burly 200-pounder, and Bill Pell, a reserve lineman last year, man the guard positions; and John Wagner, another soph, replaces Gene Shekitka at center. The average weight of the line is 187 pounds, Harvard's is about ten pounds heavier...
...before rain and darkness reduced the playing field to a London for scene. Had the Flock lost, it would have been the first time a game was lost by three minutes. Apparently it really started pouring immediately after the fifth inning, for a seeing eye dog from plate umpire Al Barlick reported to the press box with the intelligence that the game was hereby called...
...fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
...Al Greenfield thought he could do more-as he had with a dozen other projects. As a real-estate salesman, Russian-born Al Greenfield was selling $60 million worth of property a year by the time he was 26. Later he built Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Hotel, soon had a finger in most local financial pies. He was worth $15 million and dominated Philadelphia's huge Bankers Trust Co. when the 1930 crash wiped...