Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that morning, after long questioning, Tapper Ryan asked permission to use a ladies' washroom near the mayor's office. Leaving his hat and coat on a chair, the tap expert beat it out a back window of City Hall and got clean away. While the cops bayed after him, Mayor O'Dwyer brought in the "someone" named by Tapper Ryan. This turned out to be a lawyer and private eye named John Broady, who, as it happens, works for none other than do-gooder Clendenin John Ryan and years before had gathered evidence for Ryan...
...admirers in the nation's capital, tall, husky Conductor Hans Kindler is one of the U.S.'s great conductors (and, say some Washington ladies, "the most beautiful man"). To his detractors, he is a man "who can't even beat a waltz," a fellow who likes to chop up scores: one Washingtonian calls Kindler's National Symphony Orchestra "the only orchestra in the world to give a ten-minute performance of Petrouchka...
Divorced. By Maxene Andrews Levy, 31, soprano member of the harmonizing Andrews Sisters: Music Publisher Lou Levy, 36, longtime manager of the trio who launched such Tin Pan Alley hits as Beat Me Daddy and Well All Right; after eight years of marriage, two children (adopted) ; in Long Beach, Calif...
...other men with a lot of experience are guard Walt Coulson and center Mike Post, who are both finishing up a third year in House basketball. This pair of oldtimers were with the Lowell team that beat Timothy Dwight, champion Eli College two years...
Finally, of course, comes Yale. The Elis have many returning veterans from the crew that scared the Crimson into setting an upstream record on the Thames in June, and in conformance with Coach Skip Walz's "beat 'em till they bleed and then beat'em for bleeding' philosophy, Yale has been working out all year. In December the Blue beat Penn, Princeton, and Cornell by more than a length over a 2,000-meter course at Miami...