Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yorker abroad, have just read your Jan. 12 article about Teamsters Feinstein and Hoffa's threat to force New York's finest into the union. If Police Commissioner Kennedy and Mayor Wagner would instruct their "finest" to pay a little "finer" attention to teamsters' traffic violations, I am sure this grandiose plan would fade very quickly. New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases. Just let them get the same measure of tickets the average private New York driver is presented with - often unreasonably...
Everyone reacted wonderfully in character. New York's Finest, in the shape of First Deputy Police Commissioner James Kennedy, came forward indignantly to ask names and addresses of the call girls, madams and businessmen whose voices were heard on the show. He got no information from Murrow in an interview that lasted just long enough (seven minutes) for picture taking. The New Dealing New York Post found in the program some vague evidence of capitalism's corruption ("Sales are sometimes clinched by a clinch ... in the world of free enterprise"). The New York Journal-American saw the whole...
Atkinson quickly learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy...
...years as head coach at Dartmouth (1934-40) and West Point (1941-58), Earl Blaik compiled one of the finest records of any college football coach (48 losses in 228 games). Between 1944 and 1950, Blaik's Army juggernauts went undefeated for 32 and 28 games at a clip. When, in 1951, Blaik's quarterback son Bob and virtually the entire varsity squad were dismissed from the Point in the mishandled "cribbing scandal," Blaik resolutely stayed on, brought Army back to football greatness, last year had another unbeaten season. Last week, at 61, he resigned, denied...
...shoot-em-up fans have their day at the Brattle, where one of the finest French gangster flicks of all time is now showing. Razzia leaves nothing to be desired. The mystery which runs through the entire film does not reach its denouement until the very end, and there is enough violence to last all but the most sadistic for several weeks. Again Gabin is masterful, although he leaves the shooting to several excellently portrayed gangster types who expires at the film's end in a burst of machine gun fire...