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After lagging behind until Jim Light-body took advantage of a mix-up in the anchor leg, the Crimson mile relay team won a slow race from Yale in the Boston A. A. games at the Garden Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lightbody Paces Mile Relay Team to Victory Over Yale | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Mexican Spitfire (RKO) adds old-fashioned horseplay and pie throwing to the timeworn comic mix-up of a henpecked U. S. husband impersonating an eccentric British lord, who keeps turning up at the wrong moment. The picture also tosses Lupe Velez, scratching and screaming in a tequila baritone, back into the U. S. cinemarena. Sample Velez quips, pointed up by prods, kicks, Mexican curses: "Shud up!", "Why don't you mind my own biz-ness?", "I'm just a big gallstone around his neck," "Shud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Then at 18.42 Patrick put the Hoddermen in the lead when he scored on a pass-out shot from Winslow in a mix-up around the Olympic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEY TEAM BEATS FAVORED JUNIOR OLYMPICS 3-1 | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...basis of the pamphlet are Professor Chafce's articles in the CRIMSON last November discussing the legal aspects of the Narragansett Park mix-up. These articles have been expanded considerably, packed between a clarifying introduction and a voluminous set of appendices, and salted down with a fistfulls of apt quotations. As an Added Feature there is a photostat of the famous "Star Tribune" asserting Governor Quinn to be in an insane asylum and (for the kiddies) lots of pictures of soldiers and horses...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: AMERICA'S INFANT PSYCHOSIS | 12/15/1937 | See Source »

...Bull Moore was above any kind of mix-up that concerned a girl, his dare-deviltry sometimes brought him to the edge of other kinds of trouble. In 1927, a grocer accused of selling liquor complained that a young bully posing as a policeman had walked in and taken $50, promising to have the accusation quashed. Bull Moore was tried for this offense. He got a six-month sentence which the judge suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mysterious Montague (Concl.) | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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