Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his salon ten years ago with the backing of Mrs. Gilbert ("Kitty") Miller (daughter of Financier Jules S. Bache), Lady Mendl (the former Elsie de Wolfe and the Comtesse de Valombrosa), reached an ecstatic crescendo of popularity and envy when he beat Mme Elsa Schiaparelli and other dressmakers to the job of making Wallis Simpson's trousseau. M. Mainbocher's corset fillip, no matter what else could be said for it. was another affirmation that the world still looked to Paris for a way to live, even as it was looking elsewhere...
...assault on the battered bulldog was resumed in the spring when an outstanding track and field team rolled up a record score at New Haven, 91 2-3 to 43 1-3. The track team beat Holy Cross, Northeastern and Dartmouth and placed second by a fraction of a point in the Heptagonal Meet, but lost out when it combined with Yale to meet an Oxford-Cambridge squad at White City, England, on July...
...Republican, last year sought (and lost) the Democratic U. S. Senatorial nomination against Earle. As Mayor, Wilson was good, bad. Although he was twice indicted for malfeasance in office (one indictment remained last week), he saved Philadelphians $50,000,000 on the capitalization of their transit setup, beat down utility rates, cut the tax rate 5?, was credited with bringing the 1936 Democratic convention to Philadelphia. But since January 1 sick Sam Wilson had spent precisely ten minutes at City Hall, let the city go to pot. Fortnight ago, with his overdue airport only half-finished, sewers left broken...
...seen in Jim Crow tournaments since Negroes first learned to play the game in the 18903. Finalist McDaniel, a pug-nosed, shy Californian, is the Bobby Riggs of Negro tennis. Freshman at Xavier (Negro) University, he has just reached top rank this year. Today his admirers think he can beat Bobby Riggs, but once, when they were both students at Los Angeles high schools, Jimmy was beaten by Bobby (7-5) 13-11) in an interscholastic tournament...
Most newspapermen (columnists excepted) consider it bad form to make news out of the misfortunes or shortcomings of fellow members of their profession. Last week Cleveland newspapermen were choosing up sides over such a question of ethics. Reporter Julian Griffin of the Press, substituting on the City Hall beat, had become annoyed by the constant presence in the reporters' room of one Joe Graham, WPA supervisor of a map rehabilitation project and onetime reporter for the News. So Reporter Griffin took a picture of Joe Graham at work (see cut) and wrote a story to go with...