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Administrative trials are, however, only a part of the town-gown tradition, and in another area--student-police relations--Brown fares much worse than Harvard. More than just spring rioting was involved in a brawl in March between Brown boys and the police outside a Providence restaurant. Rough abuse and foul language, apparently regular features of police action in the Brown community, only increased the antagonism that Brown men feel towards the Providence Police...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Lessons From Brown in Civic Affairs | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...Skagg, who became a millionaire by training youths in his shady science and sending them across the country in teams. There was Madame Mustache of Nevada City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Legerdemain & Quick Gun | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...first, everything seemed to go wrong for Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 37. Last month, in quick succession, Mailer got involved in a Manhattan nightclub brawl (the charge: disorderly conduct), stabbed his wife Adele after a long, late party (the charge: felonious assault), and was promptly committed to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric observation. But soon things began to go right for him. Released from Bellevue as a sane man, Mailer went to court, happily heard the disorderly conduct charge dismissed. Though he still faces a hearing on the knifing charge, the only witness against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 2, 1961 | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

Last year's Christmas tournament was highlighted by a wild brawl between players and fans and a second place finish to a powerful Toronto team. The tournament, held in Boston, saw impressive Crimson victories over Brown, Colby, and Northeastern, and a thrilling 5 to 4 conquest of the Providence College Friars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sextet to Compete In R.P.I. Tourney | 12/21/1960 | See Source »

...Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine. Granger fails to hit paydirt and so does his little brother (Fabian). In the end, after a belly-busting burlesque of the standard barroom brawl, Wayne gets the girl, and the villain (Ernie Kovacs) gets covered all over with sweet violets-or studio facsimile. But it does seem that Fabian should get Capucine. That way, between the two of them, they would at least have one full name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

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