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...time it was founded 66 years ago until the end of World War II, St. Bernard's Benedictines and their Catholic students maintained an aloof hostility to the Baptists and Lutherans of nearby Cullman, Ala. (pop. 12,000). Occasionally, there was even violence; at one gown-town brawl a priest was bopped by a bottle. But after the war, two things happened: the G.I. Bill enabled more local boys to go to college than ever before, and the Rev. Brian J. Egan became St. Bernard's director of public relations...
...Ninth Roxbury Precinct those arrested were not allowed to use telephones. When the host's wife tried to call the baby sitter, police grabbed her and then her husband who rushed to help, Krosney said. A brawl ensued, according to Krosney, in which the police clubbed the party goers rather liberally, and hit some of them when no resistance was being offered...
...Peppers" (with Kay Walsh and Martita Hunt), a red-wigged song-and-dance team have a dressing-room brawl and on-stage run-in with the orchestra maestro--and while the curtain comes down the show goes...
...national disaster to a loud army of Mexicans who had been stampeding northward for days. They had jammed up at border stations, scrapped for space on airlines. So many of them swarmed into the stadium that when the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner to start the brawl, the music was drowned out by their shouts of "Down in front!" After Moreno was peeled off the canvas and the announcer asked for "a hand for the beaten boy," the leftfield cheering section responded with a raucous Mexican razzberry...
Sandwiched between the judges' score cards that made Sugar Ray the middleweight champ once more, Referee Sikora's astigmatic observation served one purpose: he started an argument that should pack the house for a return brawl-if either fighter is ever...