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Word: outfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Game-time for the varsity contest is 8:30 p.m., and the Yardlings will meet a strong B.U. freshman outfit in a preliminary that will begin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weak BU Five Gives Varsity Chance to End Loss Streak | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

This formula has made Les & Co. a stand-by on Bob Hope shows since 1946. It has also won the approval of the jazz fans: in Down Beat's latest band popularity poll, Brown's outfit ran second only to "Progressive" Jazzman Stan Kenton's. Last week the band packed Los Angeles' Trianon ballroom on Saturday night, and also appeared in a local TV show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Band Businessman | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

Charies R. Brynteson 1L will coach a ten man outfit from the freshman American league, while C. Broward Craig 2L will handle the National leaguers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star Freshman Fives Meet Thursday Night | 2/20/1952 | See Source »

Washington newsmen descended on Ghost Artists and at its headquarters in residential Georgetown, found a prosperous-looking man named Hugh Troy, 44, who described himself as an illustrator of children's books. His little outfit, said Troy, had been operating for a couple of years (without advertising). Among its satisfied clients, he said, without naming any, have been military men, Government officials, doctors, businessmen and art students, as well as a Wall Street broker who commissioned an entire exhibition in order to break into "arty circles." Obviously, said Troy, he could not reveal the names of his staff artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Trojan Enterprise | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

Paradox, a hole-in-the-wall outfit run by a 23-year-old Manhattan record collector named Dante Bolletino, showed no sign of doing either. Bolletino had his records made by RCA's "custom pressing" department, which turns out records for many small companies. Some of Bolletino's pressings were even pirated from RCA's own Armstrong records. Bolletino cheerfully admitted that he had pressed from the original Columbia-owned records. But he insisted that he had violated no law, since copyrights do not cover records. He had not copied Columbia's trademark, which would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Striking the Jolly Roger | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

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