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...turn out a neat story. When "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn was killed in a South Side shooting match, Lahey wrote a sympathetic obituary in which he mentioned that the mobster had a weakness for golf and had bragged of qualifying for an Open tournament. At the end came the dash of bitters. "Jack was killed last night," wrote Lahey. "He died in the low Eighties," i.e., on the lower South Side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Up from the Ivy League | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...weakest varsity showing was in the 40-yard dash, where B.U., led by Lloyd Bell and Captain Bill Shearer, the New England dash champion, took the first two places...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity, '59 Both Defeat BU In First Track Meet, 84-24 | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

...remaining competitive events, B.U. took four first places to the Yardlings' two. Freshman winners were Joel Landau in the dash and Bill Gillen in the mile. The mile relay team of Dave Brahms, Dave Resenthal, Lee Barnes, and Al Gordon defeated its B.U. rival by almost...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Varsity, '59 Both Defeat BU In First Track Meet, 84-24 | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

Then there is junior Joel Cohen who has the potential to be another Rittenburg. Cohen is a coach's Joy, for he is an incomparable hurdler, as well as an excellent broad Jumper and dash man. He has tried his hand at high Jumping, although with not too much success yet, but with practice, he can develop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lack of Depth Faces Track Team in Opener With B.U. | 12/16/1955 | See Source »

...plow. It was a handsome pair. The 47-h.p. tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would cut 14 inches deep, was assured that it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowing & Politics | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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