Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson with a perennially strong aggregation. Led by juniors Jim Farrin and Jeff Arnold, they dropped a close 6-3 contest to Presbyterian College just before the South Carolina team bowed to the Crimson, but in other matches the Princeton team has shown that it is a very capable outfit...
...Hampshire squad, dominated by football players, has always been a fast and rough outfit. It enjoyed a very successful Southern trip and has tied the Boston Lacrosse Club, which over-powered the Crimson two weeks ago by a score...
...Angeles' onetime Racketeer Mickey Cohen, loose since 1955 after serving a stretch on an income-tax rap. and now trying to go straight as a horticulturist operating an outfit called Michael's Greenhouses, Inc., had a Manhattan rendezvous with Evangelist Billy Graham. Preacher Graham, though deploring the publicity about their meeting, acknowledged that he had first gone to work on Mickey in 1949, now has high hopes that Cohen will repent in earnest. Said Cohen: "I am very high on the Christian way of life. Billy came up, and before we had food he said-What...
...service man in France's own Deuxième Bureau in Paris was differently affected by his own government's handling of Algerian policy. The Deuxième Bureau man tipped off the Egyptian embassy in Bern that its telephone lines were being tapped by Dubois' outfit. Furthermore, the information thus obtained, including the support the Algerians were getting from Egypt's Nasser, was leaking back to Paris...
...bobby-soxers' sideburned golden calf, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis (All Shook Up) Presley, rolled rockily into Chicago for his first visitation there, succeeded in slaughtering some 13,000 of his worshipers in the Stockyards' packed International Amphitheater. Appropriately, The Pelvis was got up in an outfit that could embarrass Liberace-a suit of gold lamé and the skin of an unborn calf, plus golden shoes (24-carat coating, claimed his handlers) to match. In an earlier session with dazzled newshounds, Elvis disclosed one of his great personal sorrows: "Ah always wanted sideburns, but Ah cain't grow...