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Columbia, the dark horse in the Ivy League this season, is a young, inexperienced squad that is in the process of rebuilding after the graduation of its brilliant All-Ivy League stars Chet Forte and Ted Dwyer. The only player remaining from last year's Lion five is 6 ft. 5 in. center Rudy Milkey...

Author: By Mark L. Krupnick, | Title: Quintet to Play Cornell, Columbia In League Action Over Weekend | 1/10/1958 | See Source »

...never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed to fall out the window and kill himself before Brooklyn Prosecutor Bill O'Dwyer saw fit to bring Al to trial Al disappeared and joined the Army (he trained soldiers as longshoremen during the war), and for "clerical reasons," the "wanted" card with Al's name was removed from the files of the New York Police Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...dropped from airplanes, while his mother explains that "mummies had an engine in their tummies and daddies had a starting handle that made it work, and once it started it went on until it made a baby." But his schoolmates convinced Larry that his mother is all wrong. Una Dwyer giggles that everyone knows babies are bought from Nurse Daly, and one boy asserts that he himself floated down "on a snowflake, wearing a bright blue dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Short Stories | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

When he let U.S. Miler Fred Dwyer talk him into leaving home to take an athletic scholarship at Villanova University, on Philadelphia's Main Line, Delany made a wise choice. In Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott he found a man perfectly attuned to his own theories of running. "I want him running only fast enough to win," says Jumbo. "I've seen too many potentially great milers burn themselves out by running fast week after week." Now that he has taught Ron to relax his arms and shoulders, to get the most out of his quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Loafing Champion | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Outlook (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Interviews with ex-New York Mayor William O'Dwyer and other Americans in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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