Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great Joe DiMaggio did not begin to get his eye on the ball until late in May. That was all his Yankee teammates needed: after that, whenever Joe's big bat cooled off for a day, someone else took up the beat. Said happy Joe DiMaggio last week: "That's the way the old Yankees won pennants . . . when the top of the batting order got chilly, the bottom half...
...same boat for the last time as a unit, and the spring of 1948 when the U. S. representative is chosen, a lot of water--pardon the expression--will pass under the Larz Anderson Bridge. And the shell-load Coach Tom Bolles will finally call his "number one beat" for competition as the Varsity next spring will have unfamiliar figures in at least three slides--stroke, four, and two--as well as a new coxswain...
...here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back to her beat...
Curley had fought his conviction and sentence through U.S. Appellate and Supreme Courts, and lost. Last week, in the Washington District Court of Judge James M. Proctor, he made a final effort to beat the rap. But despite doctors' affidavits saying that Curley suffered from nine dangerous afflictions, and Curley's dramatic pleas for clemency, Judge Proctor was unmoved. Said he: "I think the defendant should be committed today." Said Curley: "You are sentencing me to death. There should be some less punishment than that." Said the Judge: "Penal institutions are staffed and equipped to care for prisoners...
Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who writes for Hearst, got off an angry piece which lashed at "some of the guttersnipes who cover the saloon beat and never bring in any news but write free advertising about some of the dirtiest criminals out of prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...