Word: brackets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orleans police last week rounded up the latest in teen-age gangs: a band of "Storm Troopers" who for weeks had annoyed the upper-bracket suburb of Metairie by smashing street lights, throwing rocks through train windows, and general hell-raising. They carried mimeographed membership cards, in English and crude German, adorned with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler. In their headquarters, an abandoned store, police found 4,000 rounds of 22-caliber ammunition, some shotgun shells, 36 knives, a rifle and two air rifles. The group's Führer was 15. Said he: "I have information that...
...Crimson had it from there. Hubie Maguire, Hal Gerry, Emil San Soucie, Childs, and Nahigian took third, fourth, sixth, seventh and tenth places to dominate the middle sciring bracket and with it the meet...
This is the first Harvard opponent with a strong middle block of runners, which is the Crimson's strength also. So far the Crimson has beaten Northeastern, B.U., and the University of Massachusetts by scoring heavily in the middle bracket...
Brown lost its first meet to Yale, but the Bruins' front runner, Walt Molineaux, took first place. Yale got the next seven places so that McCurdy figures to score in that bracket...
...Dever Victory Headquarters" consists of two spacious floors in the plushly modern Burdett Secretarial School. In the main room, about 100 by 50 feet, around fifteen people wandered about or scribbled postcards telling "All good Democrats" to register. All about, the flexible-bracket fluorescent lamps hummed busily. In the adjoining room, a cluster of men reclined in leather chairs watching baseball on a television set. We consulted with the Publicity man's secretary who promised to swamp us with handouts as soon as the printing presses began grinding them...