Word: contest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still a mystery. At St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute in Lawrenceville, Va., he was more interested in baseball and football than singing. Says he: "We thought guys in music were a little on the lavender side." He began to change his mind after winning an amateur-night singing contest in Washington's Howard Theater. By 1939, he had joined Earl ("Father") Hines's big band as a double-singing, and playing "trumpet in the worst degree." Says Billy: "I played fourth trumpet, and I'd have played fifth if Earl hadda...
...rest of the lineup seems certain to be unchanged. Herbie Neal and John Caulfield will alternate in the outfield, depending on whether opponents use right or left-handed pitchers; but otherwise things will be the same as in the last league contest, before exams...
...sophomore year, I purchased a ticket to an ice-hockey match. I admitted to a friend of mine that the contest was rather exciting for the first few minutes, but I was forced to add: "When you've seen them chase up and down the court once, you've seen the whole game." An old gentleman (whom I later discovered to be a prominent Boston Harvard Club member) overheard my remark, called some attendants, and had me escorted to the exit of the arena...
...first day all the principals went to the campus to look over Cirrotta's quarters. The next morning they huddled for several hours. In the afternoon an announcement was made in court: the state would permit Tom Doxsee to change his plea from not guilty to no contest. The judge gave him a sentence of one to two years in prison, which was suspended, and a $500 fine. Ray Cirrotta's father, in court for the hearing, collapsed when he heard the sentence. Young Tom Doxsee, as his lawyer paid the $500, said he was "disappointed" with...
...week's only league game, Penn walloped Dartmouth 15 to 10, to throw the Indians out of a first-place tie with Harvard and Princeton, which beat Yale, 5 to 0. Harvard can tie Princeton for league honors if it beats Yale in the season's only remaining scheduled contest...