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...safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
Beetle-browed, 38-year-old Moe Berg-Princeton '23, Columbia Law School '27 and the Sorbonne at one time or another-is indeed the antithesis of Ring Lardner's celebrated boneheads. A charter member of the Linguistic Society of America, he speaks seven languages-excluding Brooklynese, which he picked up when, fresh from the Princeton campus and trying to hide his Phi Beta Kappa key, he played shortstop for the Dodgers...
...found the meat bill was too costly. In 1933 Stepson-in-law John C. Martin sold the New York Post (for which Curtis had paid $1,620,000 in 1923) to J. David Stern. Two years later the Philadelphia Inquirer (cost, in 1930: $18,000,000) was sold to Moe Annenberg, famed ex-Hearst tough guy, now in jail for income-tax evasion...
...absence of Dong Pirnie didn't hurt Harvard's showing in the sprints very much, as Moe Young and Bill Trainor took first and second respectively in the 35-yard dash...
Largest turn-out Monday was in the dash fields, led by Dong Pirnie, recently returned from the gridiron. He holds the college record in the 220, which he set last spring in the IC4A meet. He is followed by Sophomore Eli Berman and Moe Young...