Word: crotches
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Wenner-Gren's associates prudently hired an obeah (Bahamian voodoo) ghost (?10 from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly...
Tony Caimi at 167 put the Crimson ahead by pinning his opponent at 4:23 on a half-nelson and crotch-hold, but Dave Morris was pinned in the next match. Heavyweight Bates, going into the final match with the score tied at 13 to 13. drew...
...pinned Williams with a double bar arm at 1:35; 137--Iben (H) decisioned R. Shorb, 3-0; 147--Adams tied P. Shorb, 1-1; Callaghan (W) decisioned Harris, 5-3; 167--Carleton (W) decisioned Hastie, 8-4; 177--Keith (H) pinned Brayer with a half nelson and crotch hold at 4:14; unlimited--Heidtmann (H) decisioned Ordeman...
...Smith (H) decisioned G. Michaels (B), 9-4; 145--Sawyer (H) decisioned Donaldson (B), 12-6; 155--D Michaels (B) decisioned King (H), 6-0; 165--Rowe (B) decisioned Kelth (H), 6-0; 17-- Claflin (H) decisioned Marshall (B), 7-2; unlimited--Chernak (B) pinned Johansen (H) with a crotch hold and body press...
Buddy King and Captain Bob Claflin survived the preliminaries but both were beaten in the quarter-finals. Barton Downes, of Navy, stopped King with half-nelson and inside crotch at 5:25 and Jim Jackson, Lehigh, threw Claflin in a figure four...