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...probable starting lineup will be: Steve Denhartog got; lie: John Taylor, Tom Wheldon, and Jim Dorsey--attack; Tom Crump, Josh Muss, and Bill Cormack defense. Pete Palches, Tim Anderson, and Ed Brown--first mid-field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Ten to Play Mount Herman Today | 4/12/1952 | See Source »

...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ladies & Gentlemen | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...Defense Department last week totted up what it has spent or earmarked for arms since the shooting started in Korea. The total: $6 billion or almost $1 billion a week. But unlike the frantic days before World War II, the orders have been placed with little fuss or muss. Businessmen who hustled to Washington for defense contracts have been asked to return home and deal with regional procurement offices, which are doing most of the buying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Fuss, No Muss | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...session" and "get a bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Bells of St. Stephen's | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Once he took offense at a natty, well-manicured prisoner in the police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gang Buster | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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