Word: back
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with what the law knew about Costello, he set out on his own in the gambler's backyard: New York City. At first it was very frustrating. Costello sources did not want to talk about him. They failed to keep appointments with Bell, and when he called them back a voice at the other end of the telephone usually said "never heard...
During the war, he served with the Signal Corps in the Pacific. He returned to Chicago in 1945 and his expert reporting has been the back ground material for such diversified cover stories as Harold Stassen (Aug. 25, 1947), with whom he traveled 27,000 miles during the last Presidential campaign; F.B.I. Chief J. Edgar Hoover (Aug. 8, 1949), Defense Secretary Louis Johnson (June 6, 1949), Roy Roberts, of the Kansas City Star (April 12, 1948) Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (April 29 1946), and President George Albert Smith of the Mormon church (July 21, 1947). Last summer Bell covered...
Waldman devotes other portions of his back to such men as Luke Appling, Gene Bearden, Alvin Dark, Bob (Mr. Team) Elliott, Jim Hegan, Tommy Henrich, Ben Hogan, Johnny Mize, Jackie Robinson, Johnny Sain, Vern Stephens, Doak Walker, and four-fifths of the 1948 Kentucky basketball team--Barker, Beard, Grozs, and Jones...
...warehouses of Back Bay, yellow chrysanthemums fester in obscurity. Not a single Harvard student was jailed in a riot last night. Three Radcliffe girls will got without dates this evening...
...think, however, that Harvard should be able to make a good showing in the East, and certainly in the Ivy League. But even putting the Crimson back on a par with its hallowed rivals is going to take a lot of doing. And the alumni are the only ones...