Word: jims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week it was plain to Journal readers-and to the rival Dispatch-that the feud had turned abruptly to friendship. In two exclusive Journal stories on the administration's slum-clearance projects, rewritemen carefully restored the Jr. to Jim Murray's name, while Editor Farrell ran the politician's picture on Page One for the first time in months. City Hall, in turn, promised to restore the Journal's traditional half-share of legal ads. Lucky Farrell promptly forged ahead with plans for a morning edition to compete with the Dispatch, started interviewing staffers from...
...first time the Detroit Lions got their hands on the ball, they pushed all the way to the Cleveland Browns' 23-yd. line. Then Jungle Jim Martin came in and casually kicked a field goal. The Lions had used up just eleven plays and already they were out three points in front in the fight for the National Football League Championship...
When the Browns tried to pass their way back into the game, the alert Lion defense spoiled everything with timely interceptions. When the Browns ran-even when their great Rookie Jim Brown carried-jarring Detroit tackles forced costly fumbles. And when red-dogging Brown linebackers broke through on Lion Quarterback Rote, a fine fullback named John Henry Johnson was almost always there to take a hand-off and explode up the middle on spectacular draw plays. By the end of the half, the Lions were leading...
...consolation rounds, Foster scored another two wins, one a 12-9 slugfest over Michigan's Fitzgerald, but in the consolation finals he lost to Jim Ellis of Indiana, 6 to 1. Ellis last year won his weight class at the tournament and was named outstanding wrestler...
Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that...