Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Past performance meant nothing. Mike Ferentz, the Long Beach (Calif.) bartender who won last year's championship, got knocked out in the first round. Reporters, who set up press headquarters in the ladies' locker room, were soon calling the tournament "anybody's open...
...opening day at Fairgrounds Park, white swimmers drifted back to the locker room in sullen anger when the first Negroes splashed into the outdoor pool. Outside the pool fence, a mob of some 200 teen-agers collected. Police arrived in time to escort the Negroes safely from the park. But all that afternoon fist fights blazed up; Negro boys were chased and beaten by white gangs. In the gathering dusk, one grown-up rabble-rouser spoke out. "Want to know how to take care of those niggers?" he shouted. "Get bricks. Smash their heads, the dirty, filthy...
This has been a pretty rough week for Harvard catchers what with Crosby in the hospital in New Haven and Armic Essayen done in with a bad ankle sprain. Coach Ethan Allen of the Elis said in the locker room after the game that the play that hurt Essayen was "stupid. Our boy shouldn't have gone in like that. I's very sorry about...
...excruciatingly pleasant sensation to descend from your parch at game's end and to stride a purposefully through the crowd, flaunting press passes and demanding entrance to the locker rooms. The petty officials delegated to guard such sanctums are inevitably a suspicious, lot, and it is indeed pleasant to brush these minions aside and enter to mingle with the great. Perhaps it is such moments as these which lead droves of young men to enter that underpaid and overworked field which is journalism...
Further proof that the theft was by no means an undergraduate prank lay in the discovery that the picture wires were neatly cut at the locker doors which held them to the wall. Such handicraft requires tools, investigators said...