Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transatlantic trip didn't do them any good. The plane, buffeted by headwinds, had to detour by way of Iceland. Nathoo took the pitching & tossing like a seasoned air traveler (which he isn't) but Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
...spring, when he was boss in Brooklyn, he told his players he didn't want any handshaking out on the field. "I don't want any talking either ... A ball game isn't a junior prom. Do you get what I mean?" One of the players didn't. "What is a junior prom?" he asked. "You don't know what a junior prom is?" thundered Casey. "A junior prom is a prom that ain't old enough to be senior prom...
...This isn't charity," Farmer said last night, "but rather an attempt to give these men an equal footing in the U.S. bidding market for these jobs." He added that the idea was based partly on the hope that they can "round out American universities...
What news isn't of "legitimate public interest"? No newsman could give a final answer. The New York Times is decently mum on many a scandal that the hard-eyed New York Daily News delights to mock and maul. In the current American Mercury, Chicago Lawyer Mitchell Dawson tries to fix the legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted...
...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...