Word: copping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move...
...beat M.I.T. by 12 points in the final standings. Indians Warner Willcox and Robert Wright led the individual scoring with 77 points to their credit, while the Crimson's leading crew, Robert Sherwood '43 and David Hadden '42, finished a poor ninth with 34 points. Sherwood did cop second in one round, but the Crimson skippers, who have done fairly well so far this fall, were way off form and never even threatened to pass third place Brown, 33 points ahead at the finish...
...raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...
...accosted in your own room by a strange individual trying to sell you a magazine subscription, shoe him away and call a yard cop. He will tell you he is working his way through college, which is the truth. But he doesn't pay any tuition, gets through college in a week, and collects fabulous sums of money...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...