Word: beatings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yale Beat St. Nick...
Stan Kenton considers his "progressive jazz" just what the psychiatrist ordered. Last month, he sat down with a Down Beat reporter (Harvardman Mike Levin), gave him a 62-column interview that sounded sometimes like a seminar in psychology, sometimes like a talk with Father Divine. Said Kenton: ". . . The human race today may be going through . . . nervous frustration and thwarted emotional development which traditional music is entirely incapable of not only satisfying, but representing...
Trigger-tempered Max Hirsch, 68, a horse trainer by trade, said he wasn't interested in the $50,000 prize money. He just wanted to beat "that horse." He felt so strongly about Armed, 1947's horse of the year, that he couldn't even mention his name. Max had been maneuvered into running his Assault against Armed one day last September when Assault had "only three legs...
...peace & quiet of a training track at Columbia, S.C., to lick Max's wounds and heal Assault's gimpy leg. Two weeks ago, Max and his horse turned up at Florida's Hialeah Park. Max had blood in his eye: this time he would beat "that horse." The Widener Handicap was billed as the horse-race-of-the-year: a contest between the second biggest money-winner of all time (Armed) and the third biggest (Assault...
Pole-vaulter Bud Lockett and weight stylist Sam Felton rolled the big seven, although for the second time in a week, large Sam had to play second fiddle in his specialty, the 35-pound weight throw. Nine days ago, Bob Bennett beat him out for the National AAU title...