Word: mee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mee Berg will string along with the same five that has racked up six wins as against one loss thus far while jayvee mentor Hay Kopp must find replacements for forwards John Altrocchi and Bill Mobrasten, who donned varsity garb this week. In yesterday's scrimmage with the Freshmen, he experimented with John Goldsmith and Dave McGiffert...
Ferdy (The Bull) Nadherny of gridiron and basketball fame heads a list of long ball hitters among the Eli yearlings. In commenting on Crimson prospects, Coach Mee Berg said yesterday, "We got lots of men on base but we have trouble getting them in." Berg plans to throw his ace lefthander John Hansen into the fray tomorrow, while standing pat on the rest of the lineup...
...made: two Navy veterans, cruising the Caribbean in a 75-foot yacht, acquired a sloe-eyed little belly dancer from Toledo. Her name was Patricia Schmidt, but she had wiggled her way along the honky-tonk circuit from Chicago to Trinidad as "Satira." When she moved aboard, to share Mee's cabin, his pal Charles Jackson obligingly moved to another. One day Mee told her to pack up; his wife was coming down from Chicago. They fought, Patricia shot Mee, and a few days later he died...
Just when the story seemed about to sag, enterprising journalism revived it. Desperate Reporter Desmond and the Chicago Tribune's Norma Browning got a scoop on Mee's moody diaries, by putt-putting out to the yacht in a launch and swiping them. The Daily News and Trib rushed juicy excerpts into print, and the press feverishly tracked down the sexy-looking women that Mee, as a PT boat skipper, had saluted with purple poesy and erotic prose. One (whom he called "Tirana") was a nightclub singer named Lorraine De Wood; the Daily News found her in Milwaukee...
...week's end Mee's diaries and love letters had been picked clean, Satira was in jail awaiting her trial, and Tirana was packing them in as a special attraction at a Greenwich Village nightclub. The press got ready to change the subject...