Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Below our class" was all '51 mentor Moe Berg had to say about the Milton outfit which he expects to make victory number five on the season record of four wins and one loss his squad boasts to date...
...days later Joe Louis showed up at the opening of a new Negro nightclub. He was now a partner in a publicity outfit, and the nightclub was one of his clients. Already the owner of a soft drink called "Joe Louis Punch," the champ was thinking of going into the beer business too. What about the next fight? To a gathering of reporters, Louis announced that there would be one more bout in June, but that was all. "I had enough. I been around a long time." Joe said he'd like to fight either Joe Walcott or Light...
Last week, wearing his familiar rehearsal outfit-a severe black alpaca choke-collar coat, that set off the whiteness of his hair and mustache-the little cellist himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly...
Dozens of divisional and regimental histories were in print or preparation. Many were dedicated to the proposition that "our outfit won the war single-handed." A pretentious quickie with this theme was Newspaperman Robert Allen's Patton-worshiping history of the Third Army, Lucky Forward. Patton's own War As I Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that...
...Kopp's jayvee basketball outfit got back in its winning ways last night as it stopped the University of Connecticut, 48 to 46, on the losers' home court. The victory was the Crimson's second in three starts. The squad returns to the Indoor Athletic Building floor Wednesday to face an aggregation from Emerson College...