Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Wister, sixth, Johnny Rauh, seventh, Steve Sonnabend, eighth, and Mike Ward, ninth, are all favored for the Crimson...
First man Johnny Rauh went five games before bowing in the number one match. Bill Wister, Steve Sonnabend, Guy Paschal, and Mike Ward all turned in victories...
Died. Michael Strauss Jacobs, 72, sports promoter who once held the boxing world in the itching palm of his hand; of a heart attack; in Miami. Born on Manhattan's lower West Side, shrewd, deadpan Mike Jacobs opened his first ticket agency in a Broadway hotel, moved into boxing by raising $200,000 to help Promoter Tex Rickard stage the Dempsey-Carpentier championship fight in Jersey City in 1921 (the first million-dollar gate). In the '30s he parlayed his exclusive contract with Joe Louis into a 50% chunk of Madison Square Garden's boxing profits...
...traded and argued some oldtimers (including some Southerners) into giving up some of their key committee seats. By that method he found an Armed Services Committee seat for Missouri's freshman Senator Stuart Symington, onetime (1947-50) Secretary of the Air Force, and placed Montana's Freshman Mike Mansfield on Foreign Relations...
With Radden Pomes, Charlie Elliott, Harry Brownell, Johnuy Ranh, Mike Ward, and Bill Wister playing behind Difford and Watts, the varsity should meet Yale undefeated, and should finish that...