Word: gist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government's monopoly suit against the International Boxing Club and Madison Square Garden, a U.S. attorney introduced a terse memorandum, penned in 1949 by the Garden's president (now board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken...
Circulating in Latin American capitals last week was a gloomy report labeled "For Governments Only." Subject: coffee. Gist of the document, drafted by an Inter-American Economic and Social Council committee: a growing surplus threatens to bring a disastrous slump in world coffee prices unless the governments concerned take drastic action...
Recent reports that freshman football coach Bob Margarita may leave the Crimson staff to take over as head coach at Rutgers brought quick and varied reactions from former Yardling players. But the gist of it seemed to be this: coaching freshmen is a headache and nobody could be blamed for wanting to stop, yet Margarita does it well and the Crimson would suffer it he left...
...operate as intellectual phobias or fantasies of the author. Barry Sullivan was savagely efficient as the attorney for the defense, but far less convincing in the final scene when he lauds Queeg as a maligned patriot; Frank Lovejoy seemed too intelligent to play the duped Lieut. Maryk, and Robert Gist struggled manfully with the role of Lieut. Keefer, the devious intellectual...
...against Japan." The two sides of the argument were talking about different questions: 1) Was it desirable that Russia enter the war? 2) Were the concessions justified? Last week, in a 40,000-word postscript to the 500,000-word Yalta record, the Defense Department released the supposed gist of all "major official military advice given on the question of Soviet participation in the war against Japan." It turned out that MacArthur sent his opinions on the subject to Washington only twice during...