Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn-) Mayer, 63, and second wife Lorena, 41, his bride of two weeks, were right on the beat; breezing through their honeymoon, they arrived in Manhattan, saw several shows, stamped a few rumbas at the Stork Club...
...U.S.L.T.A. put 27-year-old Ted Schroeder, who has made himself unpopular with the officials by boycotting the national singles for the past six years. Yet he was the star of the victorious Davis Cup team. And soon after Pancho put on his new crown, Old-timer Schroeder beat him twice...
...something like chaos already. The trouble started last June when Columbia Records brought out its long-playing Microgroove records (TIME, July 26), which play at 33⅓ r.p.m. Though the industry grumbled, and phonograph owners had to buy an attachment to play the records, Columbia had scored an impressive beat...
Gruin had TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle on hand, but the LIFE photographer-reporter team of Jack Birns and Roy Rowan, who had scored a beat with their eyewitness report of Mukden's last hours, were in Shanghai. The General agreed to a next morning departure. Birns and Rowan boarded a civilian cargo plane at Shanghai, but a ground haze delayed the landing at Nanking until 10 a.m., almost three hours after General Chou's transport plane was to leave for the Suchow battlefront. Gruin spent the interval conning the Chinese airmen into waiting for the overdue plane...
...farmhouse near Tampa, Fla., and told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...