Word: moe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one defeat mars the record of Coach Moe Berg's Freshman hoop quintet, as they set their sights on this term fees...
...Runyon had not tried to hoard it. He had roamed the town more eagerly than ever, as if to take with him all he could of the sharp flavor of the characters he half-created, half-observed: Milk Ear Willie, Harry the Horse, Sam the Gonoph, Light-Finger Moe, and Regret, the horse player. He spent many nights cruising with Walter Winchell, his fellow Hearstling and perhaps his closest friend, chasing police calls...
Modestly volunteering the information that he could start a sky-scraping array averaging better than six feet four inches, Coach Warren "Moe" Berg '44 has decided to settle for a first team which reaches a mean height somewhere in the vicinity of a mere six feet...
...Guild's national campaign to get $100 a week for experienced reporters. The first enemy, Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express (TIME, Sept. 23), was still shut down and the strike was in its ninth week. Dave Stern was a hand-picked target: Rival Walter (son of Moe) Annenberg's richer Inquirer (circ. 600,000) had countered Guild demands with an offer identical to Stern's, but so far had been left alone. To Guild members, who might also be baffled by the discrimination, the Guild frankly admitted that it considered Stern the softer touch...
...crusader, but a sharp news vendor, emerged from the purge stronger than ever. Until last week, Field and the editorial writers had charted Sun policy. Now two of the five editorialists are gone, and the new board will do the navigating. Dimitman, who learned his trade under the late Moe (Daily Racing Form) Annenberg on the Philadelphia Inquirer, is on the board...