Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They fired his imagination. He quit school when he was eleven to sell newspapers and run a kids' crap game-a project which meant paying off the Irish cop on the beat. He soon graduated to sterner enterprise. When he was 17, he was charged with assault and robbery, but the charge was dismissed. In 1912, when he was 21, he was arrested for robbing a woman of $1,600 on the street and again the charge was dropped. But in 1915, Gunman Francesco Castiglia, alias Frank Saverio, alias Frank Stello, was jailed and convicted of illegal possession...
...unreasonable also; his secret departure had been a sure way to bring the press tallyhoing after him. Said one reporter sourly: "We don't like this business any more than you do. I'd like to get out of here and take in a football game." At that, O'Dwyer tried futilely to get a plane to take him away...
Army-Navy Game (Sat. 1:15 p.m., Mutual...
Whitman's football temperature had come to fever pitch a fortnight ago after the game with little College of Idaho (enrollment 495). As usual, Whitman lost (31-19). But what really stung Graduate Manager Frederic Santler was the gate receipts-only 158 paid admissions. For the season, Whitman had not only lost six out of eight games; it had also gone $4,000 into the red. Cried Manager Santler: "This marks the beginning of the end for Whitman . . . in intercollegiate athletics...
Fill the Bleachers. Whitman students disagreed. What the school needed, they decided, was more paying spectators to get more money for more athletic scholarships. The first step to that end was plain: fill the bleachers for the season's last game, with Eastern Oregon College of Education...