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Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...
...look, you're a newshawk an ya like to write the stuff. Or maybe ya even like to dig up the stuff. Ya won't make a monkey out of yaself, but you'll probably see yourself in places ya never expected to be. Your relations with the Assistant Deans, unless your case is pending action by the Administrative Board, will be anything but official; who knows, ya may even get to see a full Dean some day. Your life as a reporter will be a happy one; ya probe, ya investigate, even expose. As a newsman ya write almost...
...purple-faced, yellow-whiskered, longtailed monkey. **A South African wild...
Prophets & Pipelines. For months there have been rumors of monkey-business on college courts, but only Dr. Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen, outspoken University of Kansas coach, had said anything out loud. Last October Phog Allen roared that he knew of two cases where college players were bribed to throw games. Now that the lid had blown off in Brooklyn, everyone tried to talk at once...