Word: coley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last February, Coley B. Chapman, 26, a Negro laborer for the Long Island Rail Road, was waiting for a train in Washington's Union Station when Terminal Policeman Carl Neuman tried to arrest him for drunkenness. In the scuffle, a bullet from Neuman's revolver entered Chapman's forehead, came out just behind the hairline...
...comedy which opened Tuesday night at the Plymouth is probably going to bring its two authors, Thomas Coley and William Roerick, a steady income for many years to come, if not from Broadway at least from the hundreds of Little Theater productions it seems surely slated for. "The Happiest Years" is one of those little domestic comedies that ring enough familiar bells in everyone to give a warm feeling of recognition and remembrance...
...Chicago cook named Dick Guerrero forgot to duck in the second round and was knocked clear out of the ring. Guerrero climbed back in, talked the referee out of stopping the fight. He then battled his way to the Golden Gloves welterweight championship. The heavyweight winner: 20-year-old Coley Wallace of Harlem, who looks like Joe Louis but doesn't fight as well; he was booed after winning...
Billy Fox wasn't the only young fellow to drop out of the running in a hurry. There had been a lot of talk about a young hopeful named Coley Wallace, 20-year-old Golden Glover who looks a little like Joe Louis. But Wallace didn't look like a young Louis in the ring last week (while winning the eastern Golden Gloves championship), and talk about him hushed...
...pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13 inches. Victims of this scientific zeal are Dr. Cyclops' nosy colleagues (Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian...