Word: cops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protege, a baby-faced Army private named Johnny Sloan, 23. The defending champion, Sloan can curve and whistle a handball like a major-league pitcher. Before entering the Army, he worked for Kendler in Chicago. In the U.S.H.A. finals against Bob Brady, 36, a fireballing San Francisco cop, Private Sloan was at the peak of his methodical, calm game ("I'm a controlled kill player"), won going away (21-20, 21-9) to become indisputably the nation's handiest handballer...
...complain only when they are ignored in his column. And the few who do mind Correspondent Tatsey's frank exposures get nowhere with Weasel Necklace, who doubles as a policeman on the 1,252,000-acre reservation. "I just tell them what's what," says Columnist-Cop Tatsey. "And that...
Aristophanes' Clouds, when produced in competition in 423 B.C., didn't even cop second prize; but it has since taken its rightful place among the masterpieces of satire, rivalled only by some of the works of Moliere, Gilbert & Sullivan, and Shaw. It is particularly appropriate for the Cantabrigian community, for it is perhaps the most brilliant treatment ever given to the controversy over traditional vs. progressive education; arguments about "why Johnny can't read" are nothing...
...while, nothing happened; a Knights of Columbus contingent even grinned when a few students quavered out God Save the Queen as they passed. Then, toward the parade's end, a snowball hit a motorcycle cop who had been holding back crowds by gunning his tricycle back and forth. Almost everyone managed to be wrongheaded about what followed. The national vice president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians nonsensically protested that the disturbance was an attack on Roman Catholicism; Yale students howled that it was hobnailed police brutality; and Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold charged it to "childishness...
Stung by such a squad of cops gone bad, Top Cop Kennedy hauled 140 of the department's brass on his carpet, warned them to root out the bad ones or be rooted out themselves. Warned he: "There will be changes in the police department. The only things that won't change are ideals and principles...